...the highest nationwide total officially reported in any single day of protest in recent memory. An activist group that tracks arrests, OVD-Info, reported detentions in 49 different Russian cities.
But:
Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia
Don’t Believe It’s a War
Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the official Kremlin messaging.
...many are also encountering a confounding and almost surreal backlash from family members in Russia, who refuse to believe that Russian soldiers could bomb innocent people, or even that a war is taking place at all.
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Those narratives are emerging amid a wave of disinformation emanating from the Russian state as the Kremlin moves to clamp down on independent news reporting while shaping the messages most Russians are receiving.
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“There are Russian soldiers there helping people. They give them warm clothes and food.” [A father in Russia to his son in Ukraine]
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“They believe that everything is calm in Kyiv, that no one is shelling Kyiv with precision, and that’s it.” [A woman in Kyiv on her sister in Russia]
“No one is bombing Kyiv, and you should actually be afraid of the Nazis, whom your father fought against. Your children will be alive and healthy. We love the Ukrainian people, but you need to think hard about who you elected as president.”
...she sent photos from trusted media sites of mangled tanks and a
destroyed building in Bucha to her brother, in Krasnoyarsk, but was met
with a jarring response. “He said that this site is fake news,”
Asked whether they believe that an attack is happening, Ms. Belomytseva responded “NO!” [A woman in Kharkiv on her grandmother and father-in-law in Russia]