Putin is once again telling Russians to have more babies, and this time he's saying ethnic survival is at stake

• Russian President Vladimir Putin is telling the country's citizens to have more kids for ethnic survival.
• Russia faces a demographic crunch with a shrinking population.
• Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine has further exacerbated the country's labor shortage and brain drain.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling the heat from a demographic crunch.

He's calling on Russians to have more babies to preserve their ethnicity, Reuters reported on Thursday.