Certainly the portrait we would expect THE KYIV INDEPENDENT to paint.
Of course the average Russian soldier is well educated, well trained, live in a nice villa with his family who are independently wealthy, living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, is very patriotic, hates Nazis, respects his officers who are among the best in the world, bar none, having fought in Georgia, Afghan wars to successful conclusions - anything else is pure propaganda.