(Ukrainian Media: Ukraine faces worsening demographic crisis)-according to the Analysis Center of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIF), only 29 million people currently live in Ukraine. Since the beginning of 2022, the country's population has decreased by 8.6 million. According to the group, 37.6 million people lived in Ukraine at the beginning of 2022, but 20.7 million left the country after the special operation began. Subsequently, 12.1 million people returned, which meant a population reduction of 8.6 million.