# Ukraine’s demographic crisis works against West’s strategy to exhaust Russia — intel chief

https://mins.news/en/item/45296

- TASS, 2026-09-04 11:43 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2182735

> Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Director Sergey Naryshkin said Ukraine’s rapidly shrinking population is a major problem for the West as it seeks to prolong the conflict with Russia. He said the West wants Ukrainians to keep killing Russians while awaiting Russia’s strategic exhaustion and subsequent plunder, and cited Ukrainian data showing births in 2026 will be four times fewer than deaths.

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