At this point, it no longer matters. Even before the war fertility was below the maintenance rate of ~2.1 births per fertile female, and brain drain was already happening. Rosstats own data bears this out.
Russia's demographic decline was going to end Putin's Great Power ambitions for Russia with or without the war in Ukraine. We only have to look at Japan for a prime example of how demographic decline catalyzes economic and geopolitical decline as well.
Doesn’t Putin want a higher birth rate in his country? He sure is killing off a lot of his reproductive age soldiers.
At this point, it no longer matters. Even before the war fertility was below the maintenance rate of ~2.1 births per fertile female, and brain drain was already happening. Rosstats own data bears this out.
Russia's demographic decline was going to end Putin's Great Power ambitions for Russia with or without the war in Ukraine. We only have to look at Japan for a prime example of how demographic decline catalyzes economic and geopolitical decline as well.