The working poor in Russia know Putin is lying and the well to do and wealthy know Putin is lying. They poor know they can't speak out because they get locked up, The well to do won't speak about, because they know they need the Natural Resources from Ukraine and they are hoping that Putin can destroy enough of Ukraine with the hope that Russia can install its intent of a Puppet Government in Ukraine.
These people are not "stupid", they know very well why the Media has been cut to pure misinformation and totalitarian propaganda.
They see the stores closed, they see and know the jobs being lost, and they see and know the Industry that is pulling out, and they see and know the brain drain that has packed up and left Russia.
They are living examples of how Hitler, contained his followers, its the same as Putin is doing, and Putin seems to be trying to break Hitler's Record on how many he can displace, how much he can destroy and how many he can kill. This is the mentality of EVIL that Putin has led and brought out in the people to endorse it by their silence and their willingness to go along with it.
Fact is, the Ukrainian people are fighting back, when the Ukrainian people get the Russian Military out of their country... some of those same people, Putin has kidnapped and brought to Russia from Ukraine... may end up giving Russia some of the same reality that happens in the Middle East, of seeing many thing is Russia being blown up. Because, the Ukrainian people are not going to forget how Russia destroyed what their families spend their living building and what their previous generations endured to build up Ukraine.
Putin is what he has always been, "A Inhumane Savage" !!! - It's not like the Russian people don't already know it, but they will continue to have to acknowledge it openly as the sanctions continue to grip them, and the Oligarch's continue to rip them clean and drain them dry. What Putin has done has created the pathway for a 1940's Poor Russia.
Putin, already knows he's a dead man with limited time left. He wants to destroy as much as he can, because he knows at this point, he can build nothing. Those in his circle that back and endorse this, gloat now, but they will all be exposed and the War Crimes they have done will forever make them hunted men. Evil never escapes Truth's Exposure...
We see that fact being reality everyday in the ongoing and continuing exposure of Trump, those who aided him and those who followed him. The Other Autocrats around the globe are watching, they know, that once the downfall of Autocracy and Tyranny starts its cycle that it will span the globe. We are witnessing a period where the world is being awakened in this age of information, to the evil and damaging savagery of Autocracy, and Tyranny... by those who think they can impose Totalitarianism and get away with maintaining it.