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BBC Radio 4 From Our Own Correspondent, What do Russians think of the war in Ukraine?
“For example, a person says, 'I support,' but then researchers will follow up with questions to determine if they are ready to go to war, ready to donate to the Russian army or expect benefits from a possible victory," Koneva explained. Overall, researchers say they have tracked just a 9% fall in support for the war last year. Galina Zapryanova, senior regional editor for the Gallup World Poll, told VOA that polling in Russia " has indeed become more challenging since 2022, but it is not impossible." “Analysts have learned to deal with and avoid authoritarian pressure,” said Koneva, founder of independent research agency ExtremeScan. By early summer Ukraine will be able to use US-made F16 fighter jets for the first time, which it hopes will improve its ability to counter Russian aircraft and strengthen its own air defences.

“Analysts have learned to deal with and avoid authoritarian pressure,” said Koneva, founder of independent research agency ExtremeScan. However, when it comes to family, I, unfortunately, do have a conflict with my parents. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that the older generation is drowning in propaganda and believes that Putin’s actions are justified. Ukrainians throughout this period have never held negative views of Russians and only because of Putin’s aggression have Ukrainian attitudes turned against the Russian state and its leaders. In a panel I moderated, the Ukrainian historian and author Olena Stiazhkina began her remarks by expressing her gratitude to the Ukrainian armed forces for their defense of the homeland.
Vladimir Putin’s Russia has sharply constricted the space for free expression in recent years, but some independent pollsters who fled the country have not abandoned their work. Russian forces may try to push again along the entire front, at least to secure all of the Donbas region. Ukraine will probably try to exploit the success it has had in re-establishing its control over the western Black Sea and its vital trade corridor to the Bosphorus. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 saw the return of major war to the European continent. The course of the conflict in 2023 marked the fact that industrial-age warfare had returned too. Recently, Ukraine's winter offensive seems to have come to a halt.

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He says about 50% have "definite support" without any qualms, but the other 30% have support with reservations. A couple walk in front of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower and St Basil's cathedral in downtown Moscow. While 80% of poll respondents say they support Russia's military, some have mixed feelings. The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift in "the world order."Here are some helpful stories to make sense of it all. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.

"People in Europe won't see any benefit if Moscow receives a pass from Brussels in the form of negativity towards Ukraine. Putin will surely use this against you personally, and against all of Europe," Mr Zelensky said via videolink. But the war’s relentless destruction also poses a more existential question, one which fuels an urgent need to resist and prevail. 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. He gave no number of military losses, but disclosed that children of people within his "close" circle have fought for so-called private military companies, and a number of people "close to me" have died. Yesterday, I couldn’t buy contact lenses because they ran out in the store where I would normally buy them. International scientists started collaborating with Russian scientists to investigate how permafrost was changing.
Polls suggest the majority of Russians, if not supporting the war, certainly do not oppose it. From fleeting impressions and conversations it is hard to draw firm conclusions. Sociologists and pollsters have tried to gauge opinion, but there is no freedom of speech or information in Russia so it is impossible to tell if people are being honest. Hundreds of thousands of Russians have left Russia, including me and my BBC Russian colleagues.

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But, as Belfast-based Russian academic Aleksandr Titov has observed, Russia is nonetheless living through a crisis. But surrounded by reminders of Russia's often relentlessly violent past I felt war was now inevitable. My daily walks were my way of saying goodbye to a world, and perhaps even a country, that could never be the same again. In the weeks leading up to Russia's invasion, I would walk for hours in the central Moscow district of Zamoskvorechiye, where I had lived and worked in the BBC office for seven years.

Over 2022, I helped with humanitarian aid for visiting refugees from the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, collected humanitarian aid, and wrote letters for mobilised servicemen. The Levada Center stays within those parameters by asking whether people support the actions of the Russian military. This apocalyptic narrative sets up Ukraine as the site of this great battle. Britain has also allowed ammunition supplies to dwindle to “dangerously low levels,” according to a Parliamentary Defence Committee report. It’s hard to differentiate global problems from everyday ones, as you can see.
Overall, he’s always had nationalist views, so it’s not surprising. I haven’t lived with my parents for many years, but even if I did, I wouldn’t argue with them, because it’s their business what to think. He said for many people in this group, opinions changed in June 2022 when many realized the conflict was becoming protracted and not the fast military operation initially promised. Beginning in spring 2014, Ukrainian attitudes toward Russia begin to massively change—not because of any state-directed propaganda campaigns but in response to Putin’s military aggression.


But, at the same time, I can understand why this might seem like sophistry to Ukrainians who have lost their homes, their friends, and seen their fellow Ukrainians tortured and murdered. Then, https://euronewstop.co.uk/how-big-is-ukraine-compared-to-uk.html , except for a few missile attacks, Lviv is probably one of the safest places to be in Ukraine, far from the front lines in the east and the south. Even so, rather than taking place in different public locations around the city, as usual, the forum was convened in an underground theatre on the hilltop campus of Ukrainian Catholic University, a ten-minute drive from the city center. There, for three days, panelists addressed topics related to Ukraine, Russia, war, and culture. "Even if the baseline result may be affected by self-censorship ... shifts in the trend over time show that people are willing to report changes in opinion," she wrote.

Ukrainians are said to shell their own cities, and Russian troops are presented as liberators. He described the US as an important country but accused it of imperialism. But Putin’s invasion has accelerated a growing sense of a need to reassert a Ukrainian identity once and for all.
It is no easy matter to conduct opinion polls in Russia at the best of times, sampling views from St Petersburg to Siberia. Right now though, Russian people are not free to express their opinions anyway, with a new law in place making it a criminal offence to say anything about the Ukraine conflict which the authorities consider untrue. Jenny Hill is in Moscow, and has been keeping her ear to the ground. Yet Volkov added that this tolerance, however passive, is likely to remain quite stable, even strong.


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