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The BBC's "100 Women 2024" list, which was published on Dec. 3, featured two Ukrainians, Olha Olefirenko and Olha Rudnieva.

Rudnieva founded the Superhumans center in Lviv, which provides prosthetics and rehabilitation to war-injured Ukrainians, serving over 1,000 people in its first two years.

Ukrainian officials estimate that over 50,000 Ukrainians have lost limbs as a result of Russia’s war.

Olefirenko, a farmer, fulfilled her late father's dream by modernizing her farm, supported by the Ukrainian Veterans Fund. Through her initiative, she was able to create many new jobs for her community. Olefirenko’s father was killed on the front lines in Donbas, while on duty.

The BBC list selects women with exceptional resilience. “BBC 100 Women acknowledges the toll this year has taken on women by celebrating those who – through their resilience – are pushing for change, as the world changes around them,” the website says.

Rudnieva, when asked to describe resilience, said that it’s “waking up daily to air sirens yet continuing the fight for one's country.”

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Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets predicts a reduction in the population of Ukraine from 42 million in 2022 to 35.8 million this year. To prevent a demographic crisis, the authorities are implementing reproductive medicine programs.

The population of Ukraine may be reduced by almost half – Lubinets

The population of Ukraine will decrease this year to 35.8 million from 42 million that were in 2022, and by 2051 it may decrease to 25.2 million. This was stated by ombudsman Dmitry Lubinets, writes UNN.

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To prevent a demographic catastrophe, Lubinets proposed to include expenditures in the budget for cryopreservation of reproductive cells of Ukrainian defenders and defenders, and in the state budget for 2025, these proposals are taken into account.

"By Togo in 2024, for the first time in the program of medical guarantees, infertility treatment with Assisted Reproductive Technologies was introduced, in particular, 20 contracts were concluded with medical institutions, which were used by 1,080 people. UAH 106.5 million has been allocated for the implementation of the program," Lubinets said.

He believes that in Ukraine should strengthen informing citizens about the possibilities of state medical guarantees.

"The issue of reproductive health and preserving the gene pool of the Ukrainian people is critically important and should become a priority of State Policy," the Ombudsman stressed.

On October 2, The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the demographic development strategy of Ukraine until 2040.

The reasons for the adopted strategy are war, low birth rates, migration, high rates of premature mortality, an unbalanced labor market, and so on.

the document also states that on the date of the All-Ukrainian population census on December 5, 2001, the population of Ukraine was 48.5 million people, on July 2024, the population of the country was estimated at 35.8 million people, of which 31.1 million people lived in the territories controlled by Ukraine

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Russian presidential administration last week held a seminar for vice-governors to discuss an "image of victory" in the war against Ukraine, the Russian pro-regime Kommersant news outlet reported on Dec. 2, citing its undisclosed source.

The news comes as Western media report that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is exploring the possibility of freezing the war between Ukraine and Russia on the current front lines. Given the territory currently occupied by Moscow and potential military threats from Russian in the future, Kyiv publicly opposes such a move.

The Kremlin held the seminar because Russia's war against Ukraine will "end," and "it is necessary to be prepared for it," the source told Kommersant.

The future results of the war must be seen as "a victory" in society, although different social groups perceive it differently, the source added.

Therefore, officials need to focus on the "quiet majority" that will be "satisfied with the achievement of the war's goals and the retention of the Russian-occupied territories," as advised by the presidential administration.

During the seminar, the vice-governors were also told about the importance of working with public opinion regarding Russian military personnel returning from Ukraine.

The presidential administration recommended that rehabilitation and employment of military personnel "be kept in focus" so that former soldiers "do not join protest movements or criminals."

The risk is that former soldiers will find it hard to find the same salaries in civilian life, the source said. Thus, authorities must consider encouraging them and fostering respectful attitudes toward them in society.

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously suggested ending the "hot phase of the war" by offering NATO membership to Ukrainian territory under government control.

Kyiv submitted its application to join NATO in September 2022, and in July 2024, the alliance affirmed Ukraine's "irreversible path to full Euro-Atlantic integration, including NATO membership," — although Ukraine has not received any definitive news about its future accession.

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