The claim that Ukrainian men will leave Ukraine en masse once the war ends and the borders reopen is unfounded. Ella Libanova, Director of the Mykhaylo Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Life Quality Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, emphasised this in an episode of the Open Reality project.

The population of Ukraine in government-controlled territories stands at 29 million people – this is a joint estimate by the State Statistics Service and the Institute of Demography, made without a census, based on data from mobile operators and government registries. This was stated by Ella Libanova, Director of the Mykhaylo Ptoukha Institute for Demography and Life Quality Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, in an episode of the Open Reality project.

American Ambassador Kurt Volker – U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO in 2008–2009, U.S. State Department Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations in 2017–2019, and a leading expert on European and Euro-Atlantic security – has joined the Security Council of the Kyiv Security Forum (KSF).

The U.S. approval for the production of PAC-3 missiles in Ukraine has become a turning point for Putin, as events are not unfolding as he had planned. This was stated by Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Chairman of the Kyiv Security Forum and Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2014 to 2016, speaking on BBC News.

Despite the Kremlin’s unchanging rhetoric, Russia sees that NATO is becoming increasingly united, and Ukraine is succeeding in bringing the war onto Russian territory. This was stated by Kurt Volker, a member of the Security Council of the Kyiv Security Forum and U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019, during a special KSF discussion titled “NATO Summit in Ankara: Decisions, Challenges, and the Way Forward.”