War causes problems at home
The British see a major labor shortage in Russia
05/07/2023 10:14 am
Hundreds of Russian soldiers die every day in the war of aggression in Ukraine. This also leads to problems at home: According to the British secret service, the Kremlin is said to be running out of workers. Even now, fewer are available than they have been in decades.
According to the British secret service, Russia is “quite certain” that it will face the greatest labor shortage in decades. This is what the Ministry of Defense writes in its daily situation report. According to a survey of 14,000 employees of the Russian central bank, the number of available workers has fallen to its lowest level since 1998.
The secret service continues to write that the Russian population has shrunk more in the past three years than could have been expected due to the corona pandemic and the attack on Ukraine.
In addition, around 1.3 million people left the country last year – many of them were young people or well-trained workers. The Russian Ministry of Communications reported that around ten percent of employees in the IT sector (around 100,000 people) had left the country and not returned, writes London.
This so-called brain drain also has economic consequences. According to the secret service, the mobilization for aggressive war, a historically high number of emigrations and an aging and shrinking population limit the number of workers. “This is likely to reduce the potential growth of the Russian economy and carries the risk of fueling inflation,” the management report said.
The Ministry of Defense in London has been publishing daily information on the course of the war since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, citing intelligence information. Moscow accuses London of a disinformation campaign.