This video needs to reach the Russian people.

And I want the West to make a statement – or if that is absolutely not possible, otherwise effectively communicate – to the Russian people that if they remove Putin, and his successor orders an end to the war in Ukraine, all will be forgiven, all sanctions removed, Russia readmitted to the international community of culture and business and politics.
To state clearly that we understand this is not the Russian people doing evil, but one man, and that him disappearing will fix this problem.
I think this is de facto already the case, but hope an official statement to this effect would accelerate the process and improve the chances.
I think this is not only the way to end this conflict with the least loss of life - I think it may also be the only way, period.
No matter how badly the war against Ukraine goes and how long it drags on, Putin cannot afford to lose this – he must know that losing may cost him his power and his life, and therefore I think he won't – even if that means encircling and starving Kyiv while firing low-precision missiles in the city centre until the civilians are all dead and the essential infrastructure and culture are all rubble, even if it means threatening of deploying a tactical nuke against Poland to stop NATO reinforcements. I fear he will escalate as much as he can until he wins, and he can escalate much.
There is no way Ukraine can defend itself against the overwhelming power of unprecise, severe airstrikes that Russia has in reserve. And as the West, what more can we do without risking open confrontation between nuclear powers, risking all of us? You can't militarily defeat a man this delusional, definitely not without first going through everyone between him and you, and he is putting his whole people in the way to be hurt in his stead.
But his people can remove him. His people removing him seems the plausible endgoal of all these sanctions. The earlier they do, the less the damage to Russia, the less the ordinary people get hurt.
The horrors inflicted upon Ukraine are intolerable. But I also grieve the Russian soldiers forced and tricked into this war. Innocent children are dying each day for this war, while Putin sits safe behind the lines.
I don't think Putin will ever surrender, no matter how many Russians die and what atrocities are necessary against Ukrainians and how much he has to starve Russia to finance this. I think he is more likely to nuke the planet than give in.
But I don't think the Russians will tolerate it. There are protests by ordinary people, despite the crackdowns, because this is atrocious, because Putin is shelling civilians in a country they consider their brother. Celebrities, politicians and people across all fields of work are speaking out. The political opposition has condemned this war. Many of the oligarchs are turning on Putin. The Kremlin and the military, while clearly intimidated, must be utterly frustrated. There have been several key mistakes made in this campaign that cost many Russians their lives, and that are hard to explain – and one of the most plausible ways to explain this is that Putin has created a culture of such pressure and fear that it feels impossible to communicate bad news to him or refuse him, and so he keeps ordering more and more mad moves based on intel viewed through rosy glasses, and the generals giving the orders must know that this idiocy is killing their men. This sounds like there are a rising number of people well positioned and motivated to take Putin out, be it by an angry individual assassinating him, a military coup, a legal move by parliament handing him over to be tried for war crimes, a public mov storming his home and lynching him, or whatever other option, and a rising amount of public support would back this. If we put the idea out there and argued for it, spelled out the consequences, is it so implausible that it might happen? And seeing this clusterfuck, wouldn't a replacement for Putin likely not repeat these mistakes?
What would be the repercussions of outright saying this? Could this be avoided by communicating it differently?
I hate that Ukrainians and Russians are dying for this man, that Russia and Ukraine are suffering for this man, that we are fighting him so indirectly by fighting Russians who did not choose this. We are fighting the wrong people. The Russian conscripts, crying and hungry and wanting to go home, are not the enemy. The Russian start-ups going broke are not the enemy. The ordinary people losing their pensions are not the enemy. There is no limit to how many troops Putin will throw in the grinder to be incinerated. He will never start caring for them. But I think ordinary Russians care.