Ukrainians with family in Russia can’t get them to believe the war is real, because Putin’s state TV has them brainwashed. Sound familiar? Read mattklewis' latest:
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that some Ukrainians are facing “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.” One Russian father told his son, who actually lives in Ukraine, “There are Russian soldiers there helping people. They give them warm clothes and food.” And one Russian woman told her sister, who lives in Ukraine, that “No one is bombing Kyiv, and you should actually be afraid of the Nazis, whom your father fought against.”For Ukrainians fighting for their lives, these are not esoteric political disagreements between two family members with a similar claim to the truth.
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