{"id":122011,"date":"2023-12-09T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/?p=122011"},"modified":"2023-12-09T08:39:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T08:39:28","slug":"vladimir-putin-humiliated-as-russian-cities-cancel-new-years-due-to-war-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourclomid.com\/world-news\/vladimir-putin-humiliated-as-russian-cities-cancel-new-years-due-to-war-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin humiliated as Russian cities &#8216;cancel\u2019 New Year&#8217;s due to war cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Vladimir-Putin-New-Year-s-cancelled-5106909.jpg?r=1702110145850\"><\/p>\n<p>Fireworks displays across several Russian cities have been cancelled as Vladimir Putin&#8217;s forces flounder in Ukraine, according to Radio Free Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet reported that officials in several major cities pledged to scrap traditional holiday festivities and will instead use the money to purchase military equipment for Russian forces in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes as thousands of Russian soldiers &#8211; reportedly 11,000 last month, according to a Ukrainian official &#8211; die on the front amid huge assaults in the east of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia&#8217;s largest cities, Moscow and St Petersburg, have cancelled fireworks displays while Andrey Kravchenko, the mayor of Novorossiysk, also said his city would scrap fireworks and decorations.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin is planning to spend about a third of Russia&#8217;s budget on the military amid crippling Western sanctions and soaring inflation putting immense strain on the economy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/dynamic\/78\/590x\/secondary\/Russia-cancelled-New-Years-5106908.jpg?r=1702110145905\"><\/p>\n<p>Sochi Mayor Alexey Kopaygorodsky also ordered fireworks displays cancelled claiming they were a &#8220;minute but expensive&#8221; pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>He encouraged Russian families to follow suit writing on Telegram, he said: &#8220;This will be the best gift for our fellow countrymen on the front line of a special military operation and their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Similar measures were taken last year with several Russian cities cancelling celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes amid plummeting support for the Ukraine war in Russia ahead of a presidential election Putin said would take place on March 17, 2024.<\/p>\n<p> <strong> Don&#8217;t miss&#8230; <\/strong> <strong>Putin warned by expert his regime is based &#8216;on shifting sands&#8217; as morale sapped[EXCLUSIVE] <\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Vladimir Putin makes claims about Ukrainian counteroffensive<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"> <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_1078_5986)\"> <\/path> <\/path> <\/g> <defs> <clippath> <rect width=\"23.4329\" height=\"23.4329\" fill=\"white\" transform=\"translate(0 0.134262)\"><\/rect> <\/clippath> <\/defs> <\/svg> Support fearless journalism<\/li>\n<li> <svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"> <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_1078_5986)\"> <\/path> <\/path> <\/g> <defs> <clippath> <rect width=\"23.4329\" height=\"23.4329\" fill=\"white\" transform=\"translate(0 0.134262)\"><\/rect> <\/clippath> <\/defs> <\/svg> Read The Daily Express online, advert free<\/li>\n<li> <svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"> <g clip-path=\"url(#clip0_1078_5986)\"> <\/path> <\/path> <\/g> <defs> <clippath> <rect width=\"23.4329\" height=\"23.4329\" fill=\"white\" transform=\"translate(0 0.134262)\"><\/rect> <\/clippath> <\/defs> <\/svg> Get super-fast page loading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.images.express.co.uk\/img\/logo\/logo-premium-subscription.png\"><\/p>\n<p>In October, for the first time since the war began, the majority of Russians &#8211; 74 percent &#8211; would be happy if Putin signed a peace deal with Ukraine immediately, according to a Russian Field&#8217;s poll cited by The Economist.<\/p>\n<p>It also found that Russians were firmly against another mobilisation &#8211; despite this Putin has just called for another 170,000 troops to be added to the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Another opinion poll by the independent pollster Chronicle showed that Russian support for Putin&#8217;s war in Ukraine has halved since early 2023 &#8211; with elections coming up in 2024, this could spell trouble for the dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin&#8217;s war in Ukraine has not gone well. What was supposed to be a three-day operation to topple the government in Kyiv has become a nearly two-year-long bloody conflict that has seen tens, more likely hundreds, of thousands of casualties for Moscow&#8217;s forces.<\/p>\n<p>While elections in Russia are unsurprisingly not seen as free and fair, they serve an important role for Putin to shore up support within his country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/1843699\/vladimir-putin-russia-cities-cancel-new-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Fireworks displays across several Russian cities have been cancelled as Vladimir Putin&#8217;s forces flounder in Ukraine, according to Radio Free Europe. 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