Tolstoy's relevance to Russian invasion of Ukraine via Alexis Vinogradov

"...The bells will ring and Russian people will dress in golden clothes and begin to pray for the murders. And an old, terrible thing that has long been known to everyone will begin. People will fuss under the guise of patriotism, will fuss all sorts of officials, anticipating the possibility of stealing more money, the military will fuss, receiving double wages for killing people. They will receive ribbons, crosses, braids and stars. They will drown out their souls with songs, debauchery, vulgarity and vodka. They will be cut off from peaceful labor, from their wives, mothers, children. They will chill, starve, get sick, die of illness on the battlefields, killing people of whom they will never they did not see and did not know that they did nothing bad. And when thousands of Russian sick, wounded and killed, there will be no one to pick up from the fields, and when the air is already infected with cannon fodder, they will somehow be wounded and dumped in heaps. The dead will be buried as if they were sprinkling their bodies with lime. And again they will lead the crowd of savages further, and they will become furious and become completely wild. Love will move away from the actions of barbarians for tens and hundreds of years. And again they will say that war was necessary and future generations will become accustomed to this thought, thereby corrupting their souls and hearts..."

Л.Н.Толстой. "Christianity and Patriotism"