People losing weight because of food shortage. Dramatic lower oil or other export. People fleeing country.
What level do you call functioning?
Sources Statista and Wikipedia

Wanted as a military alliance.

Social cards for food in Kaliningrad in 2025.
This when government is reducing expenses except for the war. How bad must it be?
riamo.ru/news/obsches...

By stating Ukraine strikes first with long range weapons you deny the fact Russia first crossed a border almost 3 years ago (and even from 2014) and does long range strikes since then.
Seems defending to me.