“Children cannot be left without holidays and gifts, but for officials there should be no New Year corporate parties,” said Tomsk governor Vladimir Mazur.The Russian measures come after a wildly unpopular draft, massive military casualties and series of humiliating setbacks on the battlefield.Meanwhile, the number of Russians in favour of continuing thewarinUkrainehas fallen dramatically, with just one in four now supporting the conflict, according to leaked Kremlin opinion polls.According to data from the Federal Protective Service, included in the Ministry of Defence’s latest update, just 25 per cent of the public support the war.The results of the polls, which were carried out by the Kremlin’s Federal Guard Service, were obtained by Meduza, a Russian opposition website."