It is true but it is so unbelievable and surreal. How can it be? I have friends in Russia and now I read their posts on vk.com and so many of them are pro-war completely believe Putin's narrative. It is so sad.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/1633/iraq.aspx
And they had a access to every narrative. Kudos to that Russian 19% with no alternatives.
Probably a good portion of those 19% have ways to browse western media.
Sadly, human brains are very good at coming up with justifications for what they want to believe, and people probably find that loudly embracing the false narratives is an effective way to drown out their cognitive dissonance.
Just curious, asking for hundreds of millions of civilian casualties. I support Russia paying reparations to Ukraine if we're going to be consistent about it when the victims are, for example, Yemeni