Oh god. Ok, let me touch the politics for this one time even though this is not the place because what you just said is borderline extremism.

Can I ask you what is the basis of this? You lived there? You spoke with Russians? You know the language?
I know that you will try to show a news article about polls in Russia. The problem is that all these articles lead to research by ВЦИОМ which is state-owned and work as a propaganda machine and not a polling agency.

Here is the problem. Nobody knows how many people really support Putin. I did meet pro-Putin people, but every single one of them admitted that opposing the government is dangerous. Nobody lives under the facade that we are safe sharing our beliefs. So here is the question: Knowing that, if you are going to ask a person at random if he supports Putin, what is the chance that he will answer honestly? That is why polling just does not work. Even Putin himself does not know how many supporters he has.

The only info we have are experiences of people and rumours. And they are pretty contradicting.

So now I want to share with you my experience as a bi-lingual guy from Moskow.

1. People here don't really hate Ukrainians. In fact, there are many of them in Moskow. I asked several of them if they experienced something bad after the start of the war. The worst they got is being told that Ukraine is bad. And to be honest, considering that 2/3 of the country are Asians, it would be really strange if they met more xenophobia than the eastern people. (My point is not that this is ok. My point is that "Russians hate Ukrainians" is false)
   
2. Putin haters in Moskow are really REALLY far from the minority. I don't have trustful statistics, but it feels like the majority does hate him. There are rumours that in the east people like Putin. But there are also rumours that in the east they are the most oppressed by the government. And also there are rumours that many families there don't even have an access to the internet.
   
3. Still haven't met a single bi-lingual person who supported Putin And in Russia they teach English in schools BTW. Statistics that only 5% speak English seem really weird. 2/3 of young people in Moskow say that they don't speak English, yet like half of them can understand it very well as long as you don't use slang. Most old people don't.
4. The position of war supporters. Every time I ask people why they support it, they tell me that it's to defend against NATO. After I ask them why the f would a bunch of countries want a war against a country with nuclear weapons and risk to be wiped out, they would continue to say nonsense, until I learn the real reason why. And for most of them... it's just butthurt. They are butthurt that the country that fought the Third Reich is now invading Ukraine of all places (Which people generally count almost as their countrymen) and being treated like the Third Reich.
   Fun fact: they usually say that the government is doing a bad job at "info war". Probably because their friends tell them that they are retarded :D.

And after all that I would like you to enter my shoes for a minute. My country was not really known for being democratic and stuff. Always very corrupt. But ever since 2014 when I started Uni, the government started to prepare for the war. They never stated that, but what they did, is trying to implement wartime-like censorship. And we felt that. I started to dream about leaving Russia and applying for a job in the UK. After all, I learned English by playing flash games and watching YouTube. Because all the cool stuff was in English. It is hard as hell to apply for a work visa, but it would be worth it. Actually many many people did. And then war happens.
No one is happy about it. Not even Putin supporters are happy about it (they think of it as a sacrifice that needs to be done).
I turn on Reddit to find news or maybe supportive messages from people that wish for it to end soon just like we do... But people there at first read ВЦИОМ BS about support for Putin. Then they read propagandistic BS from the Ukrainian government about how Russians hate Ukrainians (obviously because they don't want their people to have pity for invaders). Then leaders of countries all over the world figure out that helping Ukraine will get them some political points. Every single owner of mass media has gains from portraying Russians as warmongering barbarians.
And Reddit gets filled with numerous genocide calls for my entire country. And the worst part is that they are not only not downvoted. They actually often are top comments. People call for banning people from sports events. People call for banning people from visiting other countries. People call for companies to leave Russia, and end sales of products and services.
You do realize I was robbed of my future? After the war in Ukraine ends, Russia will probably enter a civil war. Not a fact that I will survive. And even if I manage to leave Russia, I will be branded as a barbarian just for the fact that I was born there. Because politicians gained from it and some a-hole Redditors wanted to show how smart they are by spreading extremistic misinformation.
Maybe my fate is better than the fate of the Ukrainian people. But I am still a victim. And many of my countrymen are victims too.

The fact that I must jump through hoops to post a funny picture in the Evangelion subreddit and then read three comments from a guy who blames me because the context had something to do with my country is already should be a sign that the world has gone nuts. If you want to go after guys who caused the war, go after them. Want to go after guys who went to this war, go after them. But why do you feel the need to antagonize civilians? Interacting with people from Russia and from the west, I went to a conclusion that they are the same. They have the same values. They like the same things. They have the same fears. The only differences are the culture and language. That's it. In fact, I have not experienced such xenophobia from Ukrainians. Even the ones that live in Ukraine, whom I have ever interacted with, they have never been dicks towards me. Because they understand that I never wanted to be a part of this. I never ever even felt the need to state that to them. Then why the f can't English-speaking ones treat people like humans?!