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Re:Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urb... by xorfish on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:36AM (#30476109)
Pro-Russia parties got less than 10% of the vote in the last election. It is hard to imagine that the sentiment moved in Putins favor since then.

Putin is invading a country that nearly unanimously opposes him with troops that thought that they were just there for an exercise and don't really want to invade their brother country.

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Re:Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urb... by urthor on Saturday February 26, 2022 @04:41AM (#30476368)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:%D0%A0%D0%B5...

Actually, the blue areas turned out a majority vote for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Platform_%E2%80%94_...

There are definitely some pro Russian electoral districts.

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Re:Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urb... by xorfish on Saturday February 26, 2022 @08:12AM (#30477244)
There are multiple pro European parties, but only one pro Russian party.

Here is the map that shows the support for the pro Russian party.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/%D0%95%D...

There are very few districts, that have more than 50% support for the pro-Russian party. You also can't assume that the voters that voted for a pro Russian party want to be part of Russia and support the invasion.

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