If the Economist and MSN are claiming Russian popular support for the war has collapsed, you know with 100% certainty that Russian popular support for the war is stronger than ever.
Correct.
The timing of this report in the western controlled media suggests a major psyop ( prob via means of astroturfed NGOs seeded by the usual US alphabet agencies) is launched to make the Russian population ( and ROW) think there is a real significant antiwar movement. Just as things on the ground in Ukraine are grinding to a bloody frozen ground end to the formerly-vaunted Ukrainian counteroffensive and Uke presidential politics starts to roil over Uke civilian recognition of the losses they are suffering on the battlefield