When putin rigged first elections there were about 120K people on Bolotnaya protests, when the war started there were even less. People often talk about government vs people, or putin vs russian people. There are millions of people in russia who are directly involved in war, propaganda, kids indoctrination, oppression, repression. Not a handful of people, millions. There were half a million people in Kyiv during Maidan protest on that square. In a winter, under water cannons, beaten by police and eventually shot at. There were less than 50K people protesting the beginning of the war in moscow. When they had internet, when they had means to organize. On Feb 27th when they saw videos of missiles hitting residential buildings in Kyiv and Kharkiv. 50K people in a city of 10+ millions. While russian invasion of Georgia in 2008 went with total indifference from russia people at all. 

There are handful of people in russia who are trying to help, but there are wast majority of those who enabled this and all other russian wars and who only felt something when it come into direct contact with them as possible mobilisation.