What does a person think of when asked if they support the “military operation”? While some think of ruined towns, thousands of dead soldiers and civilians, others sincerely believe in joyful Ukrainians greeting the “liberators.” Most people in Russia, especially those of older age, have been denied access to independent media for years. Thus, they trust the things propaganda has planted in their minds. They know close to nothing about the artillery strikes at civil neighborhoods, and they are sure the only Ukrainians who resist Russia’s intervention are extreme “ultranationalists.” 

 

What is more, the Russians are actually afraid of war*. The majority of the nation do not consider Ukrainians their foes and believe that what Russian army is doing is handing a helping hand to their brotherly people. 
 

What do the Russians hear from their government daily?

 

• there is no ongoing war; 

• the special operation held in Ukraine is aimed strictly at the military infrastructure of the fascists who seized the power in Kyiv to intimidate and oppress the nation; 

• we fight for our freedom and the freedom of the Ukrainian people;

• the Ukrainians welcome the Russian army, the only ones resisting are nazi groups and military forces controlled by the fascist Kyiv regime;

• Russia has not struck first, we reacted to the Ukrainian aggression;

• there has been a full-fledged genocide of the Russians in Donbas, Ukraine for years;

• Russia has not started the war, it has come to end it;

• civilians and civil infrastructure are attacked only by the Ukrainian provocateurs;

• casualties among the Russian army are very few;

• if not for the Russian operation, the NATO and the nazis would have attacked very soon to procede with the genocide of the Russian and the Ukrainian nations.

 

e.g.: some of the Russian media report that president Putin has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his peace-restoration efforts.

* according to the Levada Center research, 62% of the Russians are afraid of WWIII