Nearly 200,000 Russian troops are estimated to have been killed or wounded in the past 12 months. Over half a million — by some estimates as many as a million — Russians have left their country, fleeing conscription, political persecution or hopelessness.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu take part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin Wall on the Defender of the Fatherland Day in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 23, 2023.A year ago, President Vladimir Putin plunged Russia into the war in Ukraine, pulling his country into a bloody military debacle and reigniting a global stand-off with Western countries.
"The more mainstream attitude, if you had to sum up in one word, I think would be a sort of acquiescence. Apathetic acquiescence," Jade McGlynn, a researcher and author of "Russia's War," who has been looking at attitudes among Russians towards the conflict, told ABC News. "I think the narratives resonate. I think that these narratives have always been a co-creation" she said.
"Ideally, I think we 100% should be in Kyiv to end the neo-Nazism once and for all. Ideally we should also be in Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk in all these cities," he said, referring to cities in Ukraine's West. "First of all, to come there and tell people the truth." The Kremlin has found it easier to insulate Russians from the war, because for now Russia's economy, though severely battered by Western sanctions, has survived better than expected.
People have a lunch in"Tasty. Full Stop." restaurant, a former McDonald's Russia chain, in Moscow on Jan. 23, 2023.Russia's economy has shrunk from between 4.5% according to the World Bank or as little as 2.2% by the IMF's assessment. The IMF believes it may even grow very slightly by 0.3%. The scale of Russia's losses and the chaos of mobilisation has seen criticism begin to bubble in previously unlikely places.
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