Dear Ukrainian friend, I assure you the majority of the Russian population does not support it at all, but they are powerless to change it (hence the "totalitarian" sticker on the regime). I don't have that many Russian friends left, perhaps under a hundred including my family. Not a single one of them approves of this stupidity. We all voted against the dictator, but everybody understands that the voting was just a theater. A few more years, and there is some hope (unlike China where Mr. Xi is going to stay for good). The quicker all sides deal with this active state brainwashing, the better place the world will be.