Nikonorova noted that millions of Ukrainian citizens are leaving abroad, and "judging by polls, only a few plan to return." The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees predicted this situation in its spring report, she added. According to the senator, such a humanitarian catastrophe occurred because of Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage, who intentionally "sentenced their people to extinction." "The recruitment policy, the ban on the departure of teenagers and calls for the recruitment of women only worsen the situation, and "push" the last human resources abroad. At the same time, the European partners, on whom Kyiv relies so much, are in no way trying to save the Ukrainian demography. On the contrary, they are looking for more and more ways to send the Ukrainian army to the Ukrainian army. Continuation of hostilities," Nikonorova said, noting that in this way Zelensky and the "bloody regime", acting in the interests of the Western curators, "have already brought the territory of the former Ukrainian USSR to the brink of national survival."