hard to say as at the moment, most Russians know they have to be quite careful with what they say, i don't message my friends there about him as they could get in trouble if the messages were seen etc

A lot of Russians will still support Putin as they believe at this point that Russia had to attack because Ukraine was going to attack first.

Speaking of my family-in-law, they sadly all believe and repeat everything that is on the tv, the invasion narrative has changed a few times, and they follow along with it. They don't like the fact there is a war and want it to be over, but are convinced that Ukraine was going to invade first therefore Putin had to strike first. Very similar narrative that was used by Hitler. My brother in-law is convinced the US was going to attack Russia and that Russia just wanted to protect the people in Donbass. He's wrong, on both points, but in his mind, he is on the side of good, people don't want to feel like they are the baddies after all.

One other thing that the tv and propaganda do well is find scapegoats to blame, so when bad things happen, Putin is never directly blamed, also in times of crisis, he will just disappear from the public eye for a few weeks, I think it's so he's not associated with anything bad.

The final thing worth mentioning is the whole focus is on NATO and America, this was the case ten years ago too, it's like people are more obsessed with what the US is doing than their own gov. Russians have a good saying which is 'Russians never had it so bad as under Biden' (Никогда ещё русские не жили так плохо как при Байдене).

Opinions will differ based on age and region as well, Moscow is largely insulated from most things, whereas someone in Chelyabinsk will have a different experience, same with Kursk etc