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>How are Russians handling this situation bernd? I heard they were protesting the war a few days ago. Can't imagine that anybody enjoys what's been going on over the last few days.

I can't tell about acceptance of war because it is pretty hard to measure. There are plenty of Russians who see this justified as retaliation for Donbass, especially considering that these people rarely get information from sources other than official. And official sources are pretty quiet, they say that there is no war but military operation, Russia has no casualties at all (they really said it), Russia never target any civilian infrastructure etc. So for those people it is ok. Part of them don't want war but has internal conflict like "it is inevitable and must happen, but war is bad".

It is also sometimes very fun, because official Russian position was "they want war, we don't", and propaganda used anti-war theme as main thing for 8 years. For example, WW2 theme (almost sacred) always used as comparison to modern events, and Russia never starts war, but evil enemies do. And now officials try to avoid "war" in any reports (like threatening media for using this word).

Society already divided over Ukraine. Many people may become very stubborn in Ukrainian discussion, sometimes it is even dangerous to discuss, because it will may lead to confrontation.

Plenty of people against war of course, some because humanitarian reasons (including large amount of people who has relatives in Ukraine), some because economic (collapse is hard, prices go up). I guess majority is against war, but Russian society has no connection with decision makers, so it doesn't matter anyway.