{"id":1386780,"date":"2026-04-26T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/russians-are-losing-faith-in-a-quick-victory-in-the-war-against-ukraine-how-this-has-affected-putins-level-of-support\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:55:46","slug":"russians-are-losing-faith-in-a-quick-victory-in-the-war-against-ukraine-how-this-has-affected-putins-level-of-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/russians-are-losing-faith-in-a-quick-victory-in-the-war-against-ukraine-how-this-has-affected-putins-level-of-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Russians are losing faith in a quick victory in the war against Ukraine: how this has affected Putin’s level of support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public discontent is growing in Russia amid a protracted war with Ukraine, economic hardship and restrictions on internet access. Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has fallen to 65.6%, the lowest level since the war began.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by The Washington Post<\/a> .<\/p>\n

According to Russia’s largest state-run sociological service, Putin’s approval rating has fallen by 12.2 percentage points since the beginning of the year. The publication notes that assessing public opinion is complicated by repression and a ban on criticism of the war, but the dynamics indicate growing public fatigue.<\/p>\n

“The general mood is: enough is enough, you’ve been fighting long enough,” the Russian official said.<\/p>\n

He also emphasized that the war has been going on longer than expected and the goals set have not been achieved.<\/p>\n

“It seems to everyone that this is going on longer than World War II, the Great Patriotic War \u2014 and yet we can’t take even one region,” he said.<\/p>\n

The economic situation in Russia continues to deteriorate under the influence of sanctions and high interest rates. According to Rosstat, the economy shrank by 1.8% in the first 2 months of the year, and the volume of overdue payments reached $109 billion.<\/p>\n

Business representatives and economists openly criticize the government’s economic policy.<\/p>\n

“People at the top have completely lost touch with reality on the ground, in the economy,” said Volodymyr Bogalev.<\/p>\n

Economist Robert Nigmatulin stated that there is a significant lag behind other countries and rising inflation.<\/p>\n

“We have lost everything and yet remain the poorest,” he said.<\/p>\n

Separately, there is growing outrage over restrictions on Internet access.<\/p>\n

“We’ve already lived behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ once and were sure it would never happen again. But it happened. Now we have a digital ‘Iron Curtain’,” said one Russian resident.<\/p>\n

At the same time, pessimism about the future is growing in society.<\/p>\n

“In general, both I and my friends feel complete hopelessness, with which nothing can be done,” said student Igor.<\/p>\n

As the publication notes, despite growing discontent, there are currently no signs of the authorities losing control over the situation, but repression may intensify in response.<\/p>\n

By the way, the Kremlin is probably considering at least three scenarios for ending the war in Ukraine<\/a> , including a freeze on hostilities.<\/p>\n

Recall that Moscow is already creating informational preconditions for potential aggression against the Baltic states<\/a> , in parallel with negotiations on Ukraine. As it became known, a propaganda campaign has been intensified in Russia regarding the creation of the \u201cNarva People’s Republic\u201d<\/a> , which may indicate that the Kremlin is preparing to attack Estonia.<\/p>\n

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Public discontent is growing in Russia amid a protracted war with Ukraine, economic hardship and restrictions on internet access. Vladimir Putin’s approval rating has fallen to 65.6%, the lowest level since the war began. This is reported by The Washington Post . According to Russia’s largest state-run sociological service, Putin’s approval rating has fallen by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1378161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1386780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1378161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}