1/ Donbas separatist Pavel Gubarev has complained that too few Russians see occupied parts of Ukraine as Russian, and warns that if the war is lost, "You will not be able to earn money, women will stop giving you money, you will not have children, you will all be fucking drunk." 
2/ In a video posted by Gubarev, he says that the occupation authorities in the Kherson region conducted a survey on the inhabitants' attitudes towards Russia. It found "very different" results from those living in the Luhansk and Donetsk 'People's Republics'.
3/ Gubarev argues that the inhabitants of the "new territories" have lost their "identity" as Russians because of "Ukrainian propaganda". He also complains that Russian society does not perceive the "new territories" as part of the Russian Federation.
4/ He calls for this to change and issues a dire warning: "We need a Russian national idea, and there are only two ways: win and strengthen or lose and survive decolonisation. They will dismember us like in the USSR in '91, into 20 pieces. Oh man, it will be worse than the 90s."
5/ "It's gonna be awful. You will not be able to earn money, women will stop giving you money, you will not have children, you will all be fucking drunk. Drinking all the time."
6/ As the 'Caution, news' Telegram channel suggests, he likely found out about the survey via his wife Kateryna, who worked as vice-governor of the Kherson region. She resigned in November 2022 after coming under suspicion of embezzling at least 60 million rubles ($750K). /end
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