Recent studies indicate that 15% to 45% of Russian emigrants have returned to Russia reversing the brain drain that began following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

There have been two large waves of emigration. The first occurred immediately following the invasion in February 2022 as conscientious objects left the country due to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked aggression.

The second wave occurred after the Kremlin announced a partial mobilisation in September 2022 to shore up the faltering military campaign that saw Russia’s army routed in the Kharkiv offensive, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) retook hundreds of square kilometres of territory from the Russian forces. Men of military service age fled the country to avoid conscription, although most of those press ganged into the military came from Russia’s poorest regions according to a study of banking deposits dynamics.

https://www.intellinews.com/russia-s-war-driven-brain-drain-reverses-as-up-to-45-of-emigres-return-home-333531/

 

Do they REALLY know — 15 to 45% is a massive range — seems more like a ‘fog of war’ guesstimate………….