The views of Russia’s 145 million people about the war are still difficult to discern. Read more at straitstimes.com.
MOSCOW – For two Russian women, both with Yekaterina in their names, the war in Ukraine has stirred up very different emotions. One supports President Vladimir Putin and expects victory, while the other opposes Mr Putin and thinks Russia will lose.
Her flat in southern Moscow is packed full of bags of donated clothes and boxes of food that she has collected to send to Russian-controlled Donbas, where many people have been left homeless by the war. In her flat, she sorted dozens of bags, carefully labelling those containing winter clothes, fur-lined boots and baby clothes, sometimes discarding boots that were not in good enough condition.
Her flat echoes with emptiness. Everything has been sold or stored as she packs up to leave Russia for Kyrgyzstan to join her husband, who left soon after Mr Putin ordered troops into Ukraine.Like many Russians, she has close familial and friendship networks which criss-crossed the borders of post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine.
Since the war, and after Mr Putin’s partial mobilisation in September, sections of Moscow’s wealthy cultural, technological and economic elites have left in the biggest wave of emigration since the years following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.
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