https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46828Ukraine Needs Additional 4.5 mln Workers for Post-War Recovery, Deputy PM Says
Ukraine will require an additional 4.5 million workers over the next decade to ensure a successful post-war recovery, the country’s deputy prime minister Oleksiy Chernyshov estimates.
Ukraine will require an additional 4.5 million workers over the next decade to ensure a successful post-war recovery, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.
Oleksiy Chernyshov, who also serves as Ukraine’s minister of national unity, added that one way to address the labor shortage could be to facilitate the safe voluntary return of Ukrainian migrants, who left their country in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
The conflict, which will mark its third anniversary on February 24,
displaced more than 6 million Ukrainians, exacerbating a labor shortfall that already existed before the outbreak of the war.
Chernyshov said that Ukrainians willing to return could be
exempt from military conscription, adding that Kyiv is ready to reintegrate skilled workers needed across key industrial sectors.
Even if the war ends, experts say that rebuilding Ukraine will remain an uphill task, with the World Bank estimating that the country will require $486 billion over the next decade for
full reconstruction.
Except every day that goes by, every additional increment of damage that occurs, makes it even less unlikely that the Ukrainian expatriates in other countries will ever return.
Sort of like what happened when Norwegians settled in the US. The US has as many citizens of Norwegian ancestry as does Norway which has only about 80% of its 5.5 million people who are natives. Ukraine was in demographic difficulty before the war. Every day the war goes on, every person killed, every bit of infrastructure and cultural icon destroyed just exacerbates the problem.