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Will Russians continue to support Putin’s war in Ukraine?
Patriotic attitudes run high in Russia, our research finds
Analysis by Michael Alexeev
and
William Pyle

March 15, 2022 at 7:00 a.m. EDT
Russian President Vladimir Putin awaits Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s arrival for talks in Moscow on March 11. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool/Sputnik/Kremlin/AP)

Western officials worry openly that there are no clear off-ramps to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. With a protracted and even deadlier war looking ever more likely, will Russians tolerate the invasion’s increasing costs? Or will Vladimir Putin, a highly popular autocratic leader for 20-plus years, lose ordinary Russians’ support?

As Putin massed a large invasion force at the Ukrainian border in late 2021, polls showed that less than 1 in 10 Russians believed Moscow “should send military forces to fight against Ukrainian government troops.” By mid-February, as the Russian military staged massive exercises, another poll — framing the use of force as an effort to repel Ukraine’s NATO aspirations — found that 1 in 2 Russians believed force would be justified. A week after the invasion, 58 percent of Russians reportedly supported the invasion of Ukraine.

What do these and other polls tell us? We’ve studied Russians’ self-reported willingness to sacrifice for their country, comparing Russians’ patriotic attitudes to those of people in other countries. Our research finds that Russians have consistently expressed greater willingness to sacrifice their material well-being in the interests of their country’s military goals — and are more willing to accept conflict with other nations to defend Russian interests.