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Russia suffers 160,000 casualties in 2025 so far, heading for war’s deadliest year – UK intel (euromaidanpress.com)
submitted 4 days ago by Buffalox@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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Putin is getting more and more desperate. As he is running out of options, he is just increasing the meat waves!

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Early on many people simply left Russia, because it was the safer option. These were the people with passports, which also are the people with the best qualifications.
But the main reason is propaganda, Russian propaganda claims it's Ukraine and the west that is to blame for the war, and Russia is only defending themselves against western expansion. At the same time the propaganda also claims Russia had to invade Ukraine to liberate them from Nazism.
Another reason is fear, if you stand up to the government, and talk against the war, you go to jail, and in Russia people die pretty quickly in jail.
You can't even call it a war without risking going to jail for it. Because officially it's just a military operation.

But still at some point if this continues much longer, conditions will deteriorate enough, so either people rebel or the Russian federation breaks up.