Here's more from RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service on the country's declining population:

Ukraine's Population Shrinks By Nearly A Quarter

A so-called electronic census found Ukraine’s population has dwindled by almost a quarter since 2001, driven by migration, death rates exceeding birth rates, but also because it was impossible to count residents in Russia-occupied Crimea and the territories in the country's east that Kyiv doesn’t control.

"There are 37.3 million people living in Ukraine," Dmytro Dubilet, the minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, said at a briefing in Kyiv on January 23.

Dubilet said the electronic census data was gleaned from a variety of sources, including mobile phone operators, sociologists, the statistical research of households, public registries, and the pension fund.

The new figures as of December 1 represent a decrease of 11.2 million or 23 percent since 2001 -- the last year an official census was conducted.

In 1991, when Ukraine gained independence from the Soviet Union, Ukraine had close to 52 million inhabitants.

In the past decade, 3.8 million Ukrainians left the country and didn’t return, Dubilet said.

Ukraine had 9.4 births per 1,000 people and 14.5 deaths per 1,000 people in 2017, according to the most recent data available from the World Bank.

Currently, there are 20 million women and 17 million men in the country. About 20 million people are of active working age at 25 to 64 years old.

Before Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014, the peninsula had 2 million inhabitants, whereas the densely populated easternmost Donetsk and Luhansk regions had nearly 6 million people before the Donbas conflict erupted.

The census's margin of error doesn’t exceed 2.86 percent, Dubilet said.

Based on reporting by DW, AFP, and Ukrayinska Pravda

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Ukraine's envoy to Romania voices "regret" over "incorrect" Zelenskiy translation:

By RFE/RL

Ukraine's ambassador to Romania has expressed "regret" over what he called the "incorrect translation" of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's Day of Unity address that has upset Bucharest.

In his video address on January 22, Zelenskiy recalled the short-lived 1919 agreement known as the Unification Act, which was meant to establish a unified Ukrainian state at the end of World War I.

The English translation quoted Zelenskiy as saying that the northern part of a region of the former Austro-Hungarian empire was "occupied" by Romania.

Zelenskiy's use of the word "occupied" prompted the Romanian Foreign Ministry to summon Ukrainian Ambassador Oleksandr Bankov. Bucharest says that the unification of the territory with Romania under the name of Bucovina was internationally recognized in 1919 by the Treaty of Saint-Germain between the Allied powers and Austria.

The northern part of the historical Principality of Moldova was annexed by the Hapsburg empire in 1775, becoming known as Bukowina. The territory became part of Romania at the end of World War I, but its northern half was annexed by the Soviet Union following the 1939 treaty between Moscow and Nazi Germany known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.

After the demise of the U.S.S.R. in 1991, the territory became part of Ukraine.

In a Facebook post on January 23, Bankov said Zelenskiy's address was incorrectly translated, and pointed to the corrected version of the translation, where the word "occupied" was replaced with the word "taken."

"I sincerely regret this unpleasant situation," Bankov said, adding that "in the end, this is the result of an incorrect translation and baseless interpretations."

"Affirmations such as 'Romania is being accused by Ukraine's president that it occupied northern Bucovina' or 'President V. Zelenskiy supports a Putin-style aggressive revisionism' are the result of absolutely wrong interpretations," Bankov said.