the average russian seems to be as brain dead as anyone that consumes fox/hannity/tucker on a regular basis
https://www.newsweek.com/russians-ukrainian-relatives-trust-their-tvs-more-their-family-1705942"The kids and women were already down in the basement," Larissa remembered, "and the men were up in the attic watching the vehicles roll by. They came down to join us after the shooting started, though."
For the next several days, there was heavy fighting in the area. After the region came under Russian control, Larissa participated in local pro-Ukrainian marches. On March 8, International Women's Day, she received a call from an aunt in Russia.
"My aunt said, 'We will liberate you from the Nazis, and you will thank us,'" Larissa recalled. "Everyone in Russia seems to be certain that we have been dominated by Nazis here, and yet somehow we ourselves did not notice this. At least, until February 24, we did not see any Nazis. Then the real Nazis came."
Larissa and Vladimir, like Guran and Julia, have not spoken to their Russian relatives in several weeks.
"What's the point?" Vladimir asked. "We already know what they're going to say, and they already know what we're going to say. Despite everything that has happened, nothing has changed."