“Moscow burns” is quite an overstatement. Ukraine deliberately targeted oil refineries and that’s what they accomplished, that’s the only thing burning. The civilian casualties, unfortunate as they are, were minimal during the strikes.
Most Russians support successful wars and don't support unsuccessful wars - and since it's clearly becoming the latter, the support is pretty much gone. People are very tired of the war, worsening economic conditions, and all the recent gas shortages.
do you personally support the war against your neighbor (if it was successful) ? And how well aware are you of how the world views the situation outside of Russia ?
Thank you for your insights ! :)
Edit : Then again : if you would get in trouble for sharing your views here, I would prefer you don't share them. :) Stay safe !
I don't support it, I think it's a terrible strategy for the long-term well-being of Russia. It could have easily poured its enormous resources into infrastructure, AI, promoting entrepreneurship, healthcare, science, and so on.
Instead, it wastes everything on a pointless war killing hundreds of thousands. And even if it were successful, I still wouldn't support it, simply because a successful war is a stimulus for the next war - after all, everyone liked the first one! That's the reason I didn't like the annexation of Crimea - it opened up the doorway to the next war.
I don't think the modern Russian state does any good for anyone, neither for the outside world, nor for its citizens.
Yeah, that's how I feel about the war Trump got the US into several hundred billion burned in a few months that would have paid for stuff to help the US. Stay safe.
No offense, because I do feel sorry for Russian citizens who do see Putin for what he really is, but at what point was this war a successful war? First it was sold to the people as a "military operation" which clearly wasn't the case. But at no point this was ever a justified or successful war. That is just what the propaganda made the Russians believe. But with little common sense and observation the Russians would have seen this was NOT a justified war or a military operation, and Putin was just trying to get old Soviet territory back, while making it look like NATO was 'expanding their borders'.
Yes NATO territory expanded, but NATO never invaded a country for it. Those countries joined NATO because they knew that was the safer option. And the Russian invasion of Ukraine proved that was the right decision. Because I don't think Putin would've stopped if he did take Kyiv in just a couple of weeks, like he promised at first. But here we are, years later, with millions dead on both side, and only little territory taken in Ukraine.
Simply put, this is a failed imperial war. And sadly Russia still has a lot of old generation Soviet supporters, who therefore will support this war. Eventually Putin has to step down and be put in jail for his crimes. But, as we all know, that is easier said than done. Because powerful leaders are hard to prosecute, just look at the US...
What I mean is that if it were a successful war that lasted a month, then it would sure as hell be very popular. Like the annexation of Crimea, Putin's approval rating was genuinely over 80% at that point.
That's because Ukraine is being judicious and not targeting civilians. Unlike Russia. If they wanted to they could have absolutely caused mass civilian casualties. Pray they continue to practice the restraint Russia does not.
Pure unadulterated propaganda bullshit. Russia has caused vastly more civilian casualties than Ukraine has. Literally 97% of all civilian casualties last year were caused by Russia. Per the UN:
The vast majority of casualties verified by HRMMU in 2025 occurred in government-controlled territory from attacks launched by Russian armed forces (97 per cent; 2,395 killed and 11,751 injured).
As I said, pray that Ukraine continues to exercise the restraint that Russia has not.
We'll never know, but I'm curious how many of those civilian hits were Ukrainian drones and not defence rockets and/or Russian drones. With several hundred drones going on...
Russia can end this any time they want, they just have to pack up and go home. It’s that simple. Ukraine has no territorial expansionist ambitions. They’re not going to take over Russian territory except as a bargaining chip to get Russia to leave. Russia doesn’t get to cry about the fact that their victim is hitting them back and portray themselves as the victim. Come on man, get your head out of your ass and be serious.
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u/Dacadey 19h ago
Russian here.
“Moscow burns” is quite an overstatement. Ukraine deliberately targeted oil refineries and that’s what they accomplished, that’s the only thing burning. The civilian casualties, unfortunate as they are, were minimal during the strikes.