52% of Russian residents named the war against Ukraine as the main “exciting event” of recent times.
The share of Russians who feel anxious since the beginning of the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation reached 49%. This is a record figure since September 2023, The Moscow Times reported, citing a Public Opinion Foundation poll.
At the same time, 45% of Russians said that calm mood prevails in those around them. This is the lowest number for the year. The last time anxiety prevailed over calm was in May 2023, when fighters of the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Russian Freedom Legion attacked the Belgorod region.
At the same time, 52% of Russian residents named the war against Ukraine as the main “exciting event” in recent times, and 28% of them specifically pointed to the operation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Kursk region .
Earlier, the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Russian region dropped the approval rating of the dictator Vladimir Putin to 72.4% – the lowest value since the first week of the war in Ukraine, VTsIOM reported.
Putin’s reaction to the offensive by the Ukrainian Armed Forces — the first on Russian territory since World War II — was perceived by the public “as inadequate at best,” said Jonathan Teubner, CEO of FilterLabs, a sentiment-gauging company. of the public using social media posts.
According to FilterLabs, the indices of attitudes towards Putin dropped significantly, and “the amount of obscenity directed at the commander-in-chief” jumped, especially in Moscow and three southern regions – Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk .
As you know, on August 6, the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an attack on the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. In a month of fighting, Ukrainian troops controlled 1,300 square meters. km of territory in more than 100 settlements.
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