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QUALITY OF LIFE CHANGES IN THE CONTEXT OF PRELIMINARY IMPLICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN LARGE-SCALE AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE: GEOGRAPHICAL ASPECTS
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Quality of life characteristics and priorities can change abruptly in response to any military aggression. Russia-Ukraine large-scale war is the most drastic shock not only for Ukrainian people. A qualitative literature review, comparative analysis and synthesis of studies were used to explore the questions about the role of the geographic perspective in measuring social and environmental effects of running war on different spatial levels. A number of conclusions emerged from our study: (1) As a consequence of the war, the reassessment of the geopolitical potential of Ukraine and its neighbors’ role in creation of extra risks or chances to improve the quality of life of the population at least in the Eastern and Central Europe became obvious; (2) Personal needs of people in wartime have been shifted to the nation level and proved an unprecedented strengthening of national cohesion of Ukrainians; (3) The breach in trading turnover and sanctions against Russia have the economic consequences in touristic, energy, agricultural markets, but also in economic geography of supplies which means shifting of the economic as well as social consequences of the war to a global scale; (4) Densely populated areas have been under the military actions or occupation, so the intensity of the impact on population becomes even greater in comparison to the influence on the territory; (5) The war has become a push-factor of migration of Ukrainians inside the country and abroad respectively which will result in the demographic situation in Ukraine and in the destination countries; (6) While urbanization was the main factor of spatial differences in quality of life in Ukraine before the war, the degree of destruction of urban and rural regions by Russian military and occupation actions which bring a range of ecological, supplying and other vital threats became much more important now. There is a definite need in further research for more close monitoring of consequences of the war applying GIS-technologies and other methods which connect socialgeographical approaches (including questionnaire surveys) with the analysis of the direct changes in the environment and living conditions during the war and afterwards.
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