Dig into the “social insurance” statistics in the occupied areas and you can draw your own conclusions about the illegal population too. The “labour and social insurance minister” of the breakaway entity rolled out the figures and announced that the number of active contributors has jumped 36.5% since 2022, hitting 170,000 today.
So where did that jump come from? Is there a fresh wave of labour being brought in, or is something else going on?
Social insurance numbers, like mobile phone subscriber counts, can give you a rough read on the population in the occupied areas. And here’s the thing: nobody actually knows what that population is. It’s always a mystery. They’re deliberately hiding how many bodies they’ve bussed in.
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