It is my understanding that any further liberation of large cities in Ukraine will have to wait until the majority of the Ukrainian forces is utterly destroyed or defeated and incapable of resisting further onslaughts.
Sounds about right. So very soon then.
btw Kharkov 2000 had a pop of 1.5m. Anything since will be a guess, there hasn't been a census since 2001.
So I would guess a current estimate should be well below 800K which would only be in line with the overall trend for all Ukraine. Maybe 500K given all the one way traffic out of Kharkov in the last month. Maybe less.
There has been a long habit of Ukrainian speakers mistreating the Russian speakers there. They won't want to take the risk of still being around when the Russians arrive and the locals seek revenge.Posted by: Michael Droy | May 11 2024 13:25 utc
