Saw a story on CNN today where North Korean soldiers were playing dead or were badly injured and they were setting off grenades when Ukrainian soldiers were checking them. Disturbing. You could see that the Ukrainian soldiers were going take them as prisoners if they were alive.
They had diaries which were interpreted and supposedly they were giving their lives for the glory of their dear leader. Mental.
While polling data in an authoritarian society such as Putin’s Russia must be treated with caution, recent trends identified by Levada and Russian Field are confirmed by a source close to the Kremlin. Valery Fedorov is director of Kremlin-loyal pollster WCIOM and an official advisor to the first deputy chairman of Russia’s presidential administration. In a September 2023 interview with Russia’s RBC, Fedorov reluctantly acknowledged that the number of Russians who actively and enthusiastically support Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine is not more than 10-15 percent of the population. “The majority of Russians do not want to seize Kyiv or Odesa,” he commented. ‘If it was up to them whether to the start the “special military operation,” they probably would not have done it.”
russian MFA Chief Presser and Putin lickspittle Maria Zakharova showcases her Chinese in a New Yesr’s address. Her Putonghua is not bad. Which is going to come in handy for the metric ■■■■-ton of Chinese butt she is going need to kiss in future.