>Sources differ (Rosstat is very very questionable), but consensus is that there were 145 million people in Russia in 2022, and this year there are only 143 million.

So what is that? Sources differ or there is "consensus"? What are these "sources" and how can they possibly know the size of Russian population?

>That trend line is devastating and unrecoverable, especially with the rate of decline increasing.

So more propaganda promising Russia's collapse/implosion/other_scary_words. There has been a lot of such scaremongering in the last 35 years and today it's just a marker of Western propaganda.