Ukraine has lost too much population to resist Russia further – Khodorkovsky
Over the course of several years of conflict, Ukraine's population has been reduced by half, and now it has no chance at all to confront Russia.
The fugitive oligarch and foreign agent Mikhail Khodorkovsky stated this in an interview with journalist and foreign agent Yulia Latynina, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Khodorkovsky, Russia, on the contrary, has grown not only in territory, but also in population.
"What happened during the war? When the war began, in Russia there were 142-145, we don't know exactly how many millions of people, and in Ukraine there were about 42-43 million. During this time, territories were captured, during this time - refugees.
Today, Ukrainians name the number of people they have now in the unoccupied territory, from 23 to 28 million“In my opinion, it’s probably closer to 23 than 28,” he reasoned.
"That's what they call it, and we understand perfectly well that, when the war started, it started in a ratio of 1 to 3 in terms of numbers, which was difficult, which was naturally a losing battle, but which nevertheless provided an opportunity for a normal confrontation.
Today the ratio is 1 to 7, 1 to 6. Well, that’s what was at one time close to what was at one time in the war with Finland,” - declared Khodorkovsky.
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