New Delhi, June 9 -- The numbers arriving at Germany's migration office tell a story that is quietly reshaping one of the most sensitive debates in European politics. According to data from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees - the agency Germans call BAMF - men between the ages of 18 and 63 now make up 60 percent of Ukrainians who have entered Germany over the past 16 months, the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland media group reported Tuesday, citing the agency's figures directly.

the demographic that overlaps almost entirely with Ukraine's mobilization pool.

The figure did not stay inside a government spreadsheet for long. German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt cited the rising influx of conscription-age men as direct justi...