It is obvious that 30-40 years ago for the political and intellectual elite of many countries of the world, it was not important how the reproduction of the population occurs the main thing is that, in general, there should be an increase in it at the national level, provided that the national civilizational identity is preserved and developed. But now we are beginning to understand that unnatural population growth in some regions and demographic stagnation in others can be detrimental not only to the cultural diversity of the state, but also to its national security. In the course of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Ukraine is already undergoing huge demographic changes, both in view of the millions of Ukrainian refugees, a large part of whom may become emigrants forever, and in view of the likelihood of migration of representatives of other cultures to Ukraine after the end of the war.
So, civilizational ideas have a complex sociocultural and interdisciplinary character, which consists in the synthesis of methods of self-identification fixed by sociological research; reconstructed forms of historical consciousness; social projects, values and ideals; beliefs and theoretical knowledge about the meaning of history; philosophical, sociological, cultural knowledge about the surrounding world (as the world of local civilizations); historical descriptions of the past of other civilizations.
Russia's war against Ukraine, initially in a localized hybrid (from 2014) and, especially, in a full-scale (from 2022) phase brought the problem of Ukraine's identity to the circle of existential, priority and urgent from the point of view of the state's resilience. Currently, Ukraine is making quite successful military resistance to Russia, and we have hope for victory and, in the long run, the complete liberation of all occupied territories. In particular, those in which, since 2014, the significant destruction of Ukrainian identities has been carried out, as well as in those "new" occupied territories, where the destruction of Ukrainian identity by Russia is carried out by particularly brutal, forced methods.
