Migration Policy Office: Ukrainians may become mestizo in the future

Vasyl Voskoboinyk. Photo: screenshot from the Komersant Ukrainskyi YouTube channel

Vasyl Voskoboinyk, head of the Office of Migration Policy, said on the Komersant Ukrainskyi YouTube channel that the ethnic composition of Ukraine’s population will inevitably change as a result of the demographic crisis and the large-scale recruitment of labor migrants.

“To some extent, this will be our path,” Voskoboinyk said when asked whether future Ukrainians might become “métis – a mixture of Ukrainian, Indian, Bangladeshi, and so on.” The expert did not deny such a prospect, adding that the main thing is for newcomers to “be law-abiding, pay taxes, and eventually become part of our political nation.”

He stressed that, because of the demographic crisis, Ukrainian women would have to give birth to seven or eight children each to maintain the population level – something the official considers impossible.

According to Voskoboinyk, Ukraine will need 4.5 to 8.7 million additional workers over the next ten years. The country’s internal reserves – bringing more women, elderly people, and people with disabilities into the workforce, as well as encouraging some Ukrainians abroad to return – will not be enough to cover this shortage. He therefore insists on the “managed” import of migrants from countries selected in advance by the state.

At the same time, the official called the wave of public outrage against importing migrants “a planned operation aimed at splitting society,” and accused protesters themselves of “psychological unpreparedness” and “painful fantasies.”

Voskoboinyk appeals to the example of Poland, which systematically attracted labor migrants over 13 years, and urges Ukraine to follow the same path, assuring that under “strict state control” no problems will arise. Meanwhile, in France, Germany, and Sweden, where migrants were also brought in “under control,” entire ethnic enclaves have emerged with parallel legal systems, high crime rates, and suppressed local cultures. Voskoboinyk himself acknowledges that Ukrainians fear precisely this scenario but hastens to describe their concerns as the result of “fakes” and “society’s unpreparedness.”

Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to Voskoboinyk, the only way to save Ukraine is to import migrants.

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