Both times that I visited the Baltic countries years ago one of the things that caught my attention was the massive generation gap. You could smell Sovietism from the elderly people from miles away while the younger ones who were fortunate enough to not experience that era were so much more West looking. Considering this it wasn't hard for me to imagine that the current war in Ukraine must have made this gap in the Russian society even more unbridgeable as the young ones can have various sources of information while the old ones probably depend on Putin's TV.
The following video from The Guardian adds more to that:
This video is not the first time I've seen young Russians apologetic to Ukrainians for what their regime has done to them. After the Crimea incident I met a lady from St. Petersburg who told me "I feel so embarrassed everytime I meet a Ukrainian" and it kinda surprised me as I wasn't into this conflict so much back then and due to the West stomaching it with very light sanctions (nothing compared to the ones applied today) it didn't make it that much on the news, at least in countries with vast Russian propaganda like Greece.
However, I always like to cross check things instead of rushing to conclusions so I called another friend of mine from St. Petersburg today to see how she's doing with the capital controls and all. She told me that she is fuming with Putin's decision and this caused a strong fight with her grandmother. They came up to a point of screaming to each other so she had to stop in order to not cut off with each other for good. So intense.
She also told me that she's so scared to the point that she thinks about quitting her studies and escape the country as long as she can. Wow, that really rung a bell in me. Many years ago as I was walking the center of Athens with my Siberian girlfriend she told me back then the exact same thing. She was feeling the regime breathing down her neck 10 years ago already.
I say this because you will find many comments about how Putin has changed, even from "serious" analysts. That's BS. He was a KGB guy and stayed a KGB guy surrounded by similar guys. That's all an uncultivated KGB guy can evolve. At the funeral of the guys who lost their lives inside the submarine "Kursk" back in 2000 when he was fresh as acting President after Yeltsin's departure, one of his guys managed to "vanish" one of the widows who started crying and complaining in order not to spoil the regime's image. That's the kind of person Putin was, that's what he is today. It's our fault if we had illusions about him not his. He didn't even try to hide it that much anyway. Quite the opposite, that's what he always liked to sell: Brutal arrogance.