Since 2023, Tetiana Koliesnichenko has headed the multimedia department of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service. From 2019 to 2022, she worked on the Ukrainian service’s Crimea desk, Crimea.Realities.
Ukraine's post-Soviet population has dropped by about 45% -- from 52 million to 29 million on territory that Kyiv controls. Some seven million Ukrainians have fled, and with every year the war continues, less of them will return, according to demographers.