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I suppose you're a city dweller. Do people in more rural areas share this sentiment?

the diaspora seems to overwhelmingly do so, at least.

The diaspora is a very self-filtered subset though. Say, the Russian diaspora overwhelmingly opposes the Russia's aggression in Ukraine, while the population within Russia is mostly indifferent enough, and often supports it. (Note that all the Russian troops in Ukraine are not taken by military draft, but went to war voluntarily, for a generous fee, or in exchange for release from prison.)

Did they release the conscripts from 2023? Or are you assuming they've all died by now?

It's true that new soldiers are not conscripts, but I'd assume there's still some survivors from the earlier mobilisation and as far as I know once you're in, you're in, until death, incapacity or the war ending.

as this is not war, conscripts aren't supposed to be sent to battle (there were a few cases when it did happen).

but what happens, it's that conscripts are convinced/forced to sign contracts to serve in army, and in this they are sent to face ukrainian drones.

those that were mobilized, iirc not released.

No this contradicts other stories about them committing crimes after returning from military service.

https://archive.ph/KwGgv

The Syrian diaspora overwhelmingly opposed Assad while its population seemed to support the regime... until it fell in 2024.

I wouldn't put any weight on how much the population of a autocratic country pretend to support its regime.

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