By Adam Brown and Oksana Pavliuk
Ukraine Rebuild Newswire
Kyiv, Ukraine - Oleksiy Miroshnychenko is quick to thank Germany, Poland and other nations for embracing the millions of fellow Ukrainians who fled their country after the Russian invasion. When the war ends, though, he hopes they will show even more generosity to Ukraine - and encourage the refugees to go back.
As president of the Confederation of Employers of Ukraine, Miroshnychenko worries that the West now harbors a large portion of Ukraine’s skilled labor force, and the bright side of the country’s future. Without them, he says, his wounded nation can't rebuild.
Even worse, he predicts that the host nations will seek to keep the millions of well-educated Ukrainian women and their children to help solve their own problems of labor scarcities and declining birth rates.
“There is a serious struggle for resources,” Miroshnychenko, whose members total a combined 1 million employees in six industries, told Ukraine Rebuild News. “I think they will do everything to keep our citizens there. This includes (leveraging issues such as) living standards, salaries, opportunities, and the security aspect.”
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