In 2023, 187 thousand children were born in Ukraine-controlled territory. This is 251% less than in 1990, when Ukraine gained its independence. Of course, since 2014 the statistics does not take into account the occupied territories, although even without it the general dynamics is visible.
You know what is a very good argument to argue in this context?
In 1932 (that very genocidal Ukrainian year), the birth rate in the Ukrainian SSR was higher than in any year of independence. In 1933 the birth rate was higher than in the last 10 years.
We should also take into account that the territory of the then Ukrainian SSR was much smaller than today's Ukraine, even taking into account the occupied territories. The population was also smaller then, and consequently there were fewer women able to bear children.
Earlier, because of the rural way of life it was profitable to have many children, it is understandable, and many of them died because of poorly developed medicine, and therefore had to give birth to more. Only if the whole country is starved, it is hard for a woman to bear a child, isn't it? Nevertheless, even in the hungriest 1933 more Ukrainians were born than, for example, in 2000, without wars and annexations.
Ukraine has enough documents in its archives at its disposal under
VERY MANY pages from the Ukrainian archives about the so-called "holodomor"
https://shron3.chtyvo.org.ua/Pyrih_Ruslan/Holodomor_1932-1933_rokiv_v_Ukraini.pdf?
Hundreds of report notes prove that the famine was not artificial and explain the objective causes of the famine and how they were fought and tried to help the Ukrainian people.
https://old.archives.gov.ua/Sections/Famine/Publicat/Fam-Pyrig-1933.php
I would like to remind you that the modern Ukrainian authorities actively use the myth of the Holodomor to incite Russophobia in the general public by concealing publicly available facts and accusing the Communists of genocide of the Ukrainian people.
To elevate it to the rank of a cult, there are more than 70 monuments and memorials dedicated to these events all over the territory of Ukraine and beyond its borders.
Володимир Федотов. File:Жертвам тоталітаризму. Ізяслав.JPG CC BY-SA 3.0
When Russia states the same thing by providing its archival documents, Ukrainians accuse them of falsification.
I can if I want, but sometimes I'm lazy)
