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The threat of a demographic crisis has been building in Ukraine for a while but Russia’s full-scale invasion has pushed it to the breaking point. The country had a population of 41 million in 2021, by the government’s reckoning. The UN has estimated that 6.2 million refugees left the country during the full-scale invasion and only one million have come back.