European countries, the United States, and Russia cannot exist without migrants whose numbers have already reached 20 million. The same is true of Japan and, of course, Ukraine.
On April 4 the NTN channel offered some interesting information about migrants. Statistics collected by the United Nations show that Ukraine is the world’s fourth country in terms of the number of illegal migrants: seven million. These people work mainly in bazaars, where they can earn the most money, but they are often unlawfully exploited by their own fellow countrymen. Some want to become Ukrainian citizens.
Unfortunately, the Ukrainian government and business circles, busy struggling for power, have done nothing to return the members of the Ukrainian Diaspora, particularly in Central Asia, to the devastated lands of Ukraine. So part of this Diaspora has moved to Russia or the West. Nothing has been done to return Ukrainians who are working abroad.
Nothing has been done to reduce the mortality rate among Ukrainians and the degradation caused by drugs, alcohol, smoking, and environmental pollution.
Nearly seven million Ukrainians are working abroad (and not giving birth to children for Ukraine). There are 16 million pensioners and physically disabled people. Three million people are afflicted with chronic diseases (tuberculosis, psychiatric disorders, and other illnesses) and they practically have no children. The several million alcoholics and drug addicts practically do not give birth to children. There are 7.5 million children in Ukraine. About three million Ukrainian citizens have more or less clean bills of health; they are able-bodied and can have healthy children. Therefore, Ukraine cannot do without migrants.
What is to be done? I believe that knowledge of Ukrainian should be a compulsory condition of granting Ukrainian citizenship. (Most migrants shown on television speak broken Russian.) It is also worth giving Ukrainians from the Diaspora plots of land and exempting them from tax because these are vacant lands. Such plots can also be given to migrants (also tax-exempt for 8-9 years), but not to representatives of nations who set up closed business entities.
Rigid laws should be enacted to combat drug addiction; alcohol advertising should be banned; quarterly demographic reports should be published, including an analysis of the drug-, alcohol-, nicotine-, and pollution-induced mortality rate, because these are prime causes. In addition, it is necessary to issue funds to the Ministry of Health so that it can use the media to inform the population about the damage caused by drugs, alcohol, smoking, and air and water pollution. Without these measures it will be impossible to solve the demographic problem.
