Nov 12, 2024
Russia lost more men in one day than one of its recent daily male birth rates, as it reached its highest number of casualties in a single day since Moscow invaded Ukraine.
Some 1,950 troops died on Monday, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine’s most recent update on X.
This is more than the average number of males born daily in 2022, the most recent year for which the Statista Research Department has recorded data. In 2022, around 670,200 boys were born, amounting to 1,836, on average, per day.
It is difficult to independently verify battlefield casualties, and neither Russia nor Ukraine offer up regular updates on how many fighters in their own ranks have been killed or injured. Newsweek has contacted the Russian Defense Ministry, via email, for comment.
It is worth noting that 2022 saw a decrease in births for both girls and boys, amid a countrywide birth rate crisis, which has been attributed to deaths in the Russia-Ukraine war. The average daily birth rate for boys in 2021 and 2020 was above 1,950.
The Russian government is looking at opening a “ministry of sex,” in addition to paying female students between the ages of 18 and 23 in some regions, including Khabarovsk, £900 (about $1,160) to have one child, according to Indian newspaper The Economic Times.
In September, Russia recorded its lowest birth rate in 25 years in the first six months of 2024, with the number of infant deliveries dropping below 100,000.
The current Russian birth rate is 1.5 children per woman, compared with 1.8 per woman in the U.S. A birth rate of 2.1 is needed to sustain a population.
The compensation for having a child differs in various Russian regions, with the payment for giving birth to one child as high as £8,500 (nearly $11,000) for a firstborn in the city of Chelyabinsk.
The Russian government has discussed and implemented numerous incentives to convince the population to have more children. Moscow has even proposed to use public funds to pay for newlywed couples’ wedding-night hotel stays, for up to 26,300 rubles (around $275), to promote pregnancies.
In addition to paying female students to have children, the Russian government has worked to increase the number of children born by encouraging women to conceive at work.
A regional health minister, Yevgeny Shestopalov, said on Russian TV that women should “engage in procreation on breaks.”
“Being very busy at work is not a valid reason but a lame excuse. You can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly,” he added.
Last year, Russian Duma member Valery Seleznyov pushed for female prisoners to be released to have children in order to increase the country’s birth rate. The remainder of their sentences would be canceled for doing so.
Monday was the second day in a row that Russian losses broke a record, adding to the 1,770 casualties reported by Kyiv on Sunday.
Before the last two days of major losses, the previously held record was in mid-May, when it was reported that Moscow sustained 1,740 casualties in a single day.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-casualties-death-rate-birth-rate-ukraine-1984557
If you subtract the natural death rate of mafia land from the combat deaths, that’s even greater news. This planet has no use for russians. They must go extinct.
I would love to ask a russian woman what are the benefits of having children in mafia land. I’m pretty sure the words, freedom, wealth and prosperous will never get mentioned.
MRSA !! (Make RuSSia Small Again)
Potential meat puppet comes to mind.