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ALT Russia is celebrating Ukraine's decline. *This is not just a crisis," Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said in May, "but evidence of the biological death of a nation." Anton Kobyakov, an adviser to Vladimir Putin, advocates settling Russians in Ukraine as Catherine the Great did in the 18th century. "All that remains [for Ukraine] is extinction, and only Russia can save the country," he said in September. That is nonsense; Ukraine can survive as a smaller country. But such remarks suggest Russia is starting to view depopulation as a war objective. From The Economist’s November 5 2025 article “War battered Ukraine risks a demographic collapse”