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Ukraine invasion: Russians feel the pain of international sanctions
People are arrested for even walking around the area where a protest was scheduled. I deleted some of my messages because the police check social media chats on public transportation. In addition, the police recently searched the flat of a close friend of mine and then put her under house arrest for two months. https://anotepad.com/notes/486najyi had been putting up posters that said “No to war” around the city.


Ukraine cannot expect peace with Russia if it is not willing to give up Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, Robert Fico has said ahead of a meeting with prime minister Denys Shmyhal on Wednesday. “Ukraine has achieved this because it has largely prevented the Russian Black Sea Fleet from operating in the western Black Sea, where it is held at risk by Ukrainian missiles and uncrewed surface vessels,” it said. Ukrainian agricultural exports surged in December after it successfully forced Russia out of the western half of the Black Sea, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov repeated claims made by the region’s Moscow-appointed governor that Ukraine was responsible for the attack, which wounded 20 others.

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UN ambassadors have told a new BBC documentary about the moment they learned of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. “The conflict between Russia and Ukraine may last for several more years. I believe that the political system in Russia will be severely degraded in the coming years. Business, housing and community services, medicine, education – everything will sag. After such colossal losses, the army will have to be rebuilt again. The concentration of human beings – and not cyborgs with eternally gloomy faces – per square kilometre is much higher here than in Moscow.

That number consists of many young Russians and slightly more women than men. It sparked a conflict between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists, which has seen casualties on both sides. But what kind of guarantees they would give independent Ukraine is not yet clear. Oil prices rose in the first year of the conflict, generating more revenue for the Russian state and certain segments of the Russian population. While the defence alliance, Nato, and the US warn of an imminent invasion, many people are still unconvinced that war will happen or that it would be to Russia's advantage.
As for me, personally, I lost the opportunity to move into my own apartment, which I was supposed to do soon because the renovations became too expensive. Because of this, I will have to live for a long time in a place where I’m not very comfortable. My feelings are mixed regarding the decision of our president. I got a government email saying that we had until March 14 to download all files from Instagram.

Russia Given Cold Shoulder by Sports World Due to Invasion of Ukraine
People have young children to look after, cancer and other illnesses to manage, aging parents to care for. It’s easy to imagine that they feel they can’t—or don’t want to—get arrested for opposing a distant war because of these kinds of responsibilities, even if it is being waged in their name. This war is based in no small part on dehumanizing Ukrainians as a group.


But even though justification of the Ukraine invasion can be found among Russians, there have been no demonstrations of support. It’s sunny, people are taking selfies on Red Square, while a long convoy of National Guard buses rolls by the Kremlin walls. Gudkov says that the number of Russians who reject the Ukraine war has remained stable at 18-22%. That number consists of many young Russians and slightly more women than men.

How do Ukrainians in Russia feel about the crisis?
Lena, 30, is a former resident of the city who now lives in St Petersburg. She asked Al Jazeera not to use her full name since she hopes to return home one day. The term dates back to the second world war, when nationalist fighters in western Ukraine led by Stepan Bandera sided with the Nazis against the Red Army and committed war crimes against Poles and Jews. “I grew up in the Soviet Union, where we were all brothers and sisters,” he said. “Except back in the 1970s, when I did my army service with men from western Ukraine.

Right now, they are relatively safe, but it’s a constant worry for my family. In addition, the police recently searched the flat of a close friend of mine and then put her under house arrest for two months. Of course, that may be a strange example, but I just mean those of us who are against war still suffer from it. “Not just us but all of Europe is living on this credit.” She added, “I want to mark my position as someone lacking objectivity.
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. He says the firm asks about peoples' feelings, and is seeing that both groups — those who support and oppose the military's actions — are anxious and afraid. 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.


We have VK (a Russian substitute for Facebook), but it’s not the same. It was rather cheap, but now I want to buy AirPods and they’re really expensive. They were 7,000 roubles and now cost more than 14,000 roubles. My sister was struggling to get baby products for my nephew because the prices skyrocketed. One of my brothers-in-law and my father will potentially lose their jobs because their businesses worked very closely with European businesses, and all of those lines of communication are closed off now.

Ilya (name changed), who is in his early 30s, has just finished paying off his mortgage in Moscow. However strange or cynical it sounds, it’s actually humane because it allows everyone around to prevent a large massacre. Ukraine’s president earlier signed a decree instructing the government to develop a plan for preserving the national identity of the “historically inhabited lands” of Krasnodar Krai, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov. As you may have heard, The Moscow Times, an independent news source for over 30 years, has been unjustly branded as a "foreign agent" by the Russian government. In order to build climate models that can accurately predict what will happen to the Arctic in the future, scientists need measurements from across the Arctic.
Romanovsky is also concerned about young Russian scientists who are important to the future of climate research in the region. "Eventually, I believe that we will be able to communicate openly again." "In the past – like, Soviet Union past – the data from this part of the world was also limited," says Vladimir Romanovsky, a permafrost expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks who trained in Moscow. In the mid-1970s, young scientists had virtually no contact with western collaborators, he remembers. For Russian climate scientists who started their careers in the Soviet Union, the current situation can feel eerily familiar.


Ukraine’s president signed a decree instructing the government to develop a plan for preserving the national identity of the “historically inhabited lands” of Krasnodar Krai, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov. Ukraine’s president earlier signed a decree instructing the government to develop a plan for preserving the national identity of the “historically inhabited lands” of Krasnodar Krai, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov. Was hatred a natural and ultimately inevitable response to the atrocities Ukrainians were being subjected to?

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