LOSSES OF HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE REGIONS OF UKRAINE DURING THE PERIOD OF RUSSIAN MILITARY AGGRESSION

Vasyl Pryimak; Stefania Vyshnevska; Vitalii Holovnov

doi:10.32782/2415-3583/29.18

Vasyl Pryimak The General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military University of Land Forces https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-4535
Stefania Vyshnevska Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5322-0950
Vitalii Holovnov Ivan Franko National University of Lviv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1597-5703

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32782/2415-3583/29.18

Keywords: human capital, region, direct loss of human capital, indirect loss of human capital, Russian military aggression, full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to study the loss of human capital in Ukraine and its regions during the latest Russian-Ukrainian war, which began in 2014. The study of the loss of human capital in Ukraine and its regions during the period of Russian military aggression was carried out in three stages. At the first stage, direct losses of this capital during 2014-2021 were calculated. The second and third stages of this study are devoted to the study of indirect losses of this capital, respectively, for the same period and the period after the full-scale invasion of Russian troops on February 24, 2022. The conducted studies showed that during the Russian military aggression, the human capital of Ukraine suffered significant losses. The calculation of direct losses of this capital showed that these losses for the period of 2014-2021 amounted to 1994,55 thousand people on an average annual basis. The largest direct losses of the HC of Ukraine were experienced in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia regions, and the smallest – in the Chernivtsi, Kyiv, Volyn and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. Studies of indirect losses of human capital before and after a full-scale invasion by the Russians also indicate their significant volumes. The largest volumes of indirect losses of human capital were observed after the full-scale Russian invasion of the country on February 24, 2022. According to the number of damaged, destroyed and destroyed educational, cultural and health care institutions in the regions of Ukraine after that date, the greatest losses of human capital were incurred in the Donetsk, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.

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