How four years of Ukraine war have changed Russia
Al Jazeera
From curbs on rights to fewer choices at the market, the war has taken its toll. Still, support for it remains high. Al Jazeera speaks to people in Russia and Russians abroad.
Nearly four years ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on national TV that the country’s armed forces had begun a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The war, known by its official euphemism of “special military operation” (SMO), has now lasted longer than Russia’s involvement in World War II from 1941 to 1945. Russian combat deaths, verified by the BBC and the independent Russian outlet MediaZona, have now topped 186,000 – nearly 13 times the Red Army’s losses during the entire 1980s war in Afghanistan, which lasted a decade and included soldiers from across the Soviet Union.
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Tehran believes so, and will seek to extract concessions that the US and Gulf nations can’t agree to, analysts caution.
Some 450,000 people without electricity in Belgorod region, while power cut off for 150,000 consumers in Chernihiv.
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Some are left without an income, others are temporarily displaced, and no one knows when the internet will return .
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