No one will be banned from leaving Ukraine after war

However, we have a problem. Not with the bans, but with the future of Ukraine. It existed before the war, and after the war it will reach very large (I don't want to say catastrophic) scales.

“Our most capable citizens - those who have high intelligence, useful knowledge and skills, speak foreign languages, are easy-going and psychologically capable of rapid adaptation in new places - are going abroad in search of a better life. And they will go abroad even more. How can you keep a person if they can earn many times more for the same work abroad than at home?”

The simple answer "we need to make things so good here that people don't want to leave" is very naive. We will not reach the economic level of developed countries in this generation. This was unlikely even before the war, and after the war it will be absolutely impossible - the current generation of Ukrainians, thanks to ‘one who stays in the bunker’, will only know how to fight, volunteer and lick their wounds. Our children, perhaps our grandchildren, will live well.

And every person has one short life. They don't want to live for their grandchildren, they want to live here and now. And the result is a negative selection - the best people leave, and those who would also like to, but cannot, remain. It's a vicious circle.

I have one crazy dream. To win the war, take some Mamontovskoye oil field, the Druzhba pipeline and the GTS for reparations (as once, after the First World War, revenues from the German Ruhr basin were used to pay reparations to the French) and use them to pay the elite - not MPs, of course, but qualified specialists. So that they can stay at home and develop Ukraine's economy.

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About the author. Olena Bilozerska, officer of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, volunteer, blogger

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