Ukraine war Why so many Russians turn a blind eye to the conflict

By immobilising Ukraine, life is being preserved,” said pundit Vladislav Shurygin on the Channel One programme Vremya Pokazhet. Their town has been directly affected, so we are worried about them. Right now, they are relatively safe, but it’s a constant worry for my family. And other specialised apps, like Matlab (a programming and computing platform) and Coursera (an online course platform). Also, prices for some ordinary things, like cosmetics and food, have doubled, but in many cases, we have no alternative because there are no factories here that produce those products. Young Russians tell us about a war few wanted and how the sanctions are affecting their lives.

Poland’s prime minister said his country would do “everything” to help Kyiv win the war. For Ukrainians, the looming first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of their country is a historic milestone within an ongoing tragedy of unprovoked bloodshed, one which seems to be escalating again. But the war’s relentless destruction also poses a more existential question, one which fuels an urgent need to resist and prevail. For centuries, Ukrainians have struggled against Russian cultural dominance.

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Early Thursday morning, any remaining skepticism that their country would invade was put to rest, when Mr. Putin declared a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Roman Starovoit, governor of the Kursk region, said Mr Zelensky had proven why Russia’s “special military operation” was necessary. Roman Starovoit, governor of the Kursk region, said Mr Zelensky had proven why Russia’s self-described “special military operation” in Ukraine was necessary. https://richard-andresen.hubstack.net/what-history-shows-how-will-the-war-in-ukraine-end-russia-ukraine-war-1707943188 is warming up to four times faster than the Earth as a whole.

Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Russia was unnerved when an uprising in 2014 replaced Ukraine’s Russia-friendly president with an unequivocally Western-facing government. In Russia, state-run newspapers and media outlets blame the West for aggression, mirroring the Kremlin's language. Viktor isn't worried either, but does get basic military training at his university, which is common in Ukraine. OK, I confess I didn't know who the woman was, but her thoughts didn't exactly seem preoccupied by a possible invasion on her country.

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I saw this Banderite reality with my own eyes,” he said, using a disparaging term for Ukrainian nationalists, which is also occasionally used as an ethnic slur against Ukrainians living in Russia. It also wants to know what Moscow has done to protect “the right of such children to preserve their identity, including nationality, name and family relations”. Ukraine has been able to strike multiple targets near St Petersburg in recent days because the region’s anti-air defences are “poor”. A man serving in Ukraine’s national guard has been arrested after four people were murdered in a Donetsk city. A Ukrainian father was killed and his daughter wounded in a Russian attack on an eastern Ukrainian city on Monday morning. He signed a decree on Wednesday calling for the preservation of Ukrainian identity in the “historically inhabited lands” of Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov, which border Ukraine to the north and east.

• Ukrainian attitudes toward Russia were stable until 2013, with positive attitudes ranging from 65 percent in the west to 93 percent in the east.









• But even though justification of the Ukraine invasion can be found among Russians, there have been no demonstrations of support.









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• Examples of Yugoslavia and Libya, two states bombed by NATO forces, are used to drive fears that Russia may be next.

But as time passed, I got used to it, no matter how terrible it was. People get used even to war, especially if they live far from the battleground. Airfares were growing each time I refreshed the page and having reached the figure of 300,000 rubles ($4,000), I understood that an alternative was needed and bought bus tickets to Tbilisi with my girl from Moscow for 5,000 rubles ($66) each. You don’t know when your friends and family will be taken away for mobilisation. I’m afraid they will announce a full mobilisation and take everyone.

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One man in his fifties said, “It is now prohibited by law to answer what you think about this topic. “Russia continues to illegally wage war across Ukraine but the country continues to show remarkable determination and resilience in the face of Russia’s attacks, which is why the UK has changed its travel advice to these regions,” it said. “Today’s actions by Zelensky once again prove that our president is right about launching a special military operation,” he said. People walk next to a cracked panel apartment building in the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk in 2018. Climate change is causing permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, to thaw across the Arctic. When the earth thaws, it can destabilize building foundations, roads, pipelines and other infrastructure.

• The Russian foreign secretary flew on an unspecified “northern route to bypass unfriendly countries” in 12 hours and 45 minutes, Russian state news agency Tass reported.









• Zaichikov travelled to Kyiv during the Maidan revolution, out of curiosity rather than to take part.









• It could be their Soviet past, or the government propaganda that has been poured out for so many years, or just that there is too much fear and anxiety to actually allow the thought that the world is different from what they expect.









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• We really want to help, but we haven’t been able to solve problems even in our own country, and now requests are flying around that we stop the war in another country.

“Surveys don’t show what people think, but what they are ready to say, how they are prepared to carry themselves in public,” Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, the country’s premier independent polling and research organization, said. Even before the war, Russia was not the kind of place where you willy-nilly shared your political beliefs with strangers, let alone with those who called out of the blue. That tendency, forged in the Soviet period, only intensified in recent weeks, with new laws that criminalized “discrediting” the Russian military, spreading “fake news,” and making any mention in the press that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was war. You can argue that it isn’t realistic or human to force all Russians into a black-and-white response—either oppose the war or you are complicit.

For the record, they don’t support the war in general, they do want it to stop; however, they can justify it in their heads somehow. 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. Surveys have suggested that the majority of Russians support the invasion. But it is difficult to determine how reliable these surveys are, in light of new crackdowns on free speech and dissent in Russia, where even the use of the word “war” to describe the invasion is now a crime.

• Because of everything escalating so rapidly, I’m anxious about whether I’ll have issues renewing it due to me being Russian.









• Lack of data about conditions in the Russian Arctic is already hampering climate science, and will cause ever-growing gaps in our understanding of how climate change affects the fastest-warming region of the planet, scientists warn.









• One reason why Ukraine's much-anticipated summer counteroffensive failed to produce significant results was that Russia had built a complex network of defensive fortifications throughout Russian-occupied territory in eastern and southern Ukraine.









• One man in his fifties said, “It is now prohibited by law to answer what you think about this topic.









• He contrasts this to public opinion surrounding the annexation of Crimea in 2014, recalling that there were positive feelings and even "euphoria" at the time.