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Russia's violence (domestic or otherwise) statistics are going to look pretty wild in the future; this isn't an isolated case and the situation definitely isn't going to improve any time soon.
I'd say I feel bad for them but I honestly can't quite muster up the empathy, although that probably says more about me than anything else. I'm Finnish and I'm the first generation in my family who hasn't either had to live under Russian rule, or fight the Soviets, or be hounded by postwar Soviet-controlled state security because someone in the family dared to stand up to them, so there's not a lot of love lost here.
Russian domestic violence figures already look wild. It's a huge huge problem.
"Even wilder" would probably have been more accurate, but yeah they eg. decriminalized some forms of spousal abuse ~5 years ago. Of course their faked official statistics paint the picture that it's men who are victims of the worst domestic abuse cases
I do feel bad for the children who will be abused.
Some will be stolen Ukrainians.