I’m afraid they will announce a full mobilisation and take everyone Some teenagers have been arrested for sabotaging railways, sharing anti-war memes on social media, and taking part in peace rallies – although actual criminal charges for under-18s are relatively rare The longer the war drags on, the deeper the human and economic toll in Russia, which will almost invariably impact public opinion, Botchkovar says
In his annual “Victory Day” speech on May 9, Putin said the ongoing invasion and occupation of Ukraine was necessary because the West was “preparing for the invasion of our land, including Crimea,” according to CNBC Koneva said public opinion in Russia increasingly seems resigned to a longer-term war Throughout the war, researchers have been trying to understand what factors would reduce public support in Russia Koneva said researchers found that people in this group, the largest single segment of the population, have contradictory attitudes toward the war, consisting of narratives from both sides of the conflict If researchers exclude this group and also exclude the 20 of Russians who admit they oppose the war, that leaves about half of the country's population who researchers say support the war only at the "declarative level" Sixteen months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the majority of respondents still support the war, and only 20 say they are against
"The rouble Russia's currency will fall and people will have it really bad So this must be avoided It is not people's fault, but it will be ordinary people who will be hit," he said Since Russia annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed militants in the eastern Donbas region in 2014, there's been no real let-up in fighting, cyber-attacks and misinformation Overall, the war’s outcome will depend on the mood of the group who support it and on the group of conformists who go along with it
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been highly critical of the EU's financial and military aid for Ukraine and has maintained close ties with Russia His incomings fell in 2022 as he earned less rental income from real estate he owned because of the outbreak of the war Meanwhile, Indian thinktank Observer Research Foundation's Russia expert, Nandan Unnikrishnan, said India was unlikely to sign "any major military deal" with Russia because it would cross a red line with the US
In addition, the police recently searched the flat of a close friend of mine and then put her under house arrest for two months She had been putting up posters that said “No to war” around the city Positive Russian attitudes toward Ukraine once again dramatically collapsed during the Euromaidan, which was portrayed in massive state-sponsored information campaigns as a Western-backed coup bringing Russophobes and fascists to power
I asked him how he felt about the notion of justifiable hatred in the context of Ukraine I’m against the war, and most of my friends and people I know feel the same way These are mostly people around my age with the same level of education However, when it comes to family, I, unfortunately, do have a conflict with my parents This has been pretty hard as we have very different views
About 10 civilians are believed to have been killed, including six in an air strike in Brovary near the capital Kyiv A man was also killed in shelling outside the major eastern city of Kharkiv There have also been reports of troops landing by sea at the Black Sea port cities of Mariupol and Odesa in the south A British resident of Odesa told the BBC many people were leaving Convoys have also entered the eastern Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, and moved into the Kherson region from Crimea - a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014 Analysts describe the small country as Russia's "client state"
In his mobilisation speech on September 21st, Mr Putin used choice rhetoric of the party of total war to persuade Russian citizens of the enemy’s proximity and the need to defend the motherland Many commentators declared that this rhetoric would undermine the fragile support of the majority for the war Mr Putin has a long record of masterfully manipulating public sentiment By https//euronewstopcouk/what-would-happen-if-russia-launched-a-nuke-in-ukrainehtml with the more militant part of the pro-war camp, which has long demanded mobilisation, Mr Putin may force doubters to pick a side and thus polarise society
She supports our president, despite the fact that her whole family is still over there When I hear it from Ukrainian people, I begin to doubt that our president’s strategy is wrong Maybe Putin and his people know more and it’s really all justified Now, I’m very encouraged by the fact that the world understands that the Russian people did not choose this war, that instead it was started by a president who lives in some absurd reality of his own And if I am not imprisoned soon for speaking out against war, I want to try – together with like-minded people – to do everything I can to give our country hope for a peaceful future I deleted some of my messages because the police check social media chats on public transportation
But three older people - two middle aged men and an elderly woman - are much more supportive of the invasion The economy hasn’t been stable for a long time and the sanctions haven’t gone away Travel is hard – you can’t go anywhere with a Russian passport Many Western brands leaving Russia have paved the way for young entrepreneurs and new, high-quality Russian brands are thriving “Since we lived in Russia, the war affected us quite a lot My mother and I were very afraid for our lives, so the decision was made to leave
Russia did not want to occupy Ukraine, he said, but would demilitarise and "de-Nazify" the country There are reports of attacks on Ukrainian military infrastructure across the country, and Russian convoys entering from all directions More certain that the chosen course of action is the right one is a young woman in a knitted hat and fur-trimmed coat "What's happening now What's been taken away is now being returned to us" At the same time, there have been cases of pro-war pupils recording their teachers making dovish statements in class, and reporting them to the authorities
And when it comes to Russian war casualties, Koneva said the losses have been successfully covered up by the country’s strict censorship measures Even then, the support rate decreased by only a few percentage points, from 58 to 52 But it recovered to 57 after three weeks in mid-October 2022