Meh, it’s largely perception driven and when the masses are incessantly inundated with pro-Ukrainian material day after day after day after day via the dominant Western/UK/US/EU/NATO propaganda ridden ‘yellow journalism’ media, it’s becomes not necessarily a “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it” scenario, it really becomes a ‘Who controls the news, controls the world’ scenario.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”
Not sure about ‘believe’, but they will be afraid to publicly say otherwise.