The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the research organization where we work, has been conducting national public opinion surveys since Ukraine gained independence, in 1991. Before the full-scale war,

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Russia has found that expendable convict soldiers can clear the way for regular troops, but these tactics come at a massive cost.