and the increase of shellings and by yesterday, it was with the bombing of the kindergarten and now it's like every ten minutes, there's another event unfolding, bombing or shelling of a town. and you see the escalation, with violence escalating, within the past 48 hours, and the propaganda escalating since last weekend. media in russia is controlled by the state. how is this being received by people in russia, are they taking it with a pinch of salt? i mean, it's hard to get a measure. privately, when i speak with people inside russia they do not want a war. right now, they have coronavirus spiking and there is economic problems so privately, they do not want a war, publicly they cannot voice that because anyone who makes any critical criticism of the putin regime immediately gets arrested or harassed by the russian