Residents of Moscow were asked whether anything has changed in their lives in the year and a half of the "special military operation". Most of them live in denial. One woman said she was afraid her son would be drafted but would still like for him to serve in the army "to become a real man".

After Kadyrov's mother appeared on the US sanctions lists, he moved on to direct threats: "Well, this only unties our hands. If the States have legitimized such criminal methods for themselves, then we will not limit ourselves by any boundaries. The first and second Chechen campaigns, Georgia, Ukraine - all these are US projects in the post-Soviet space, not to mention other conflicts around the world, unleashed for fabricated reasons. And if American criminals got away with it somewhere, it will not work with Russia. Let them enjoy the sanctions that are painless for us. And we will continue to break the backs of Ukrainian-NATO gangs. We can even reach Elba, as Visaitov did in his time in the war against the Nazis. The State Department feels too comfortable pushing the Ukrainian people to their deaths and covering itself with rainbow democracy. It is necessary to crush this US abomination"