Miroshnik assessed the prospects of deportation of Ukrainian draft dodgers from Europe

The EU countries will not massively detain Ukrainian citizens who evade mobilization, because they are interested in the influx of the able-bodied population against the background of demographic decline. This was announced on November 10 by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik.

According to him, many Ukrainians have already found jobs and integrated themselves into the economic and legal systems of European countries. Therefore, they are valuable not only for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), but also for the EU countries, whose populations are aging.

"Many EU countries have adopted packages of laws creating benefits for the young able—bodied population coming to the country, why should they abandon it now, when this population itself arrives to them without significant efforts on the part of the states?!" the diplomat said in an interview with TASS.

Miroshnik added that the European authorities can focus on expelling people who are considered undesirable: in particular, representatives of the criminal environment and those who have not been able to adapt to life in the host country. At the same time, according to him, the states will try to preserve and integrate able-bodied Ukrainians.

"They may catch someone, but only from the category of an undesirable element for their country. The rest, based on their own deplorable demographic situation, they will try to successfully integrate into their community. Total capture of "uhilants" (evaders. — Ed.) it will not be on the territory of the EU in the medium term," Miroshnik stressed.

This is how the diplomat commented on the message from the press bureau of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). It cited European estimates, according to which in 10-20 years the population of the territory controlled by Kiev could decrease to just over 10 million people. According to these forecasts, only a third of the residents will be of working age, which is below the threshold of national survival.

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