Yes, I remember how at the beginning of the war many people on Hive wrote me that they believed it would soon be over. I was inside the process, and it was difficult for me to imagine a quick end. But I believed that it would happen this year. Looks like I was wrong too.
As for Russia, it is a totalitarian country, everything is different there. Sometimes I come across people who are so zombified that it's hard to believe. And I think that even the end of Putin's rule and some conditional political spring will not change their thinking.