A quarter assumed that the military C Level Contact List was "protecting the Russian-speaking population of Donbas." Another 20% think that the objective of the operation is not to allow bases of the North Atlantic Treaty C Level Contact List Organization (NATO) on the territory of Ukraine. 20% believe that the operation is carried out to demilitarize Ukraine. 7% think that Russia wants to the country and change its political orientation. 6% believe that the objective is to change the unpleasant political regime C Level Contact List that the country currently has. Finally, 4% think that the idea is to split Ukraine and control the southeast of the country.

These data about the C Level Contact List overwhelming support of Russian citizens for the war demoralize those who oppose it. However, an essential correction must be made: the data does not reflect everyday experience. In fact, while there are people who support the invasion of Ukraine, two-thirds is a C Level Contact List staggering proportion. If there are so many, why don't we see them anywhere? Sociology in wartime Public opinion polls in Russia are often tools used to manipulate public consciousness. Many sociologists suggest that the number of "socially approved answers" has C Level Contact List grown in recent years: they are the cases in which people tell the interviewer not what they really think, but what they assume is expected of them.

It is likely that this effect C Level Contact List has increased significantly since the start of the war campaign. Furthermore, the Russian government is consciously creating an atmosphere of fear in the country. The Duma (Russian Parliament) has passed a law that foresees serious consequences for those C Level Contact List who spread "falsities" about the actions of the army. It is even officially forbidden to use the word "war" in the context of what is happening in Ukraine: the penalty for doing so ranges C Level Contact List from 3 to 20 years in prison. Participants in anti-war demonstrations are arrested en masse.