Pjotr Sauer

And until now, Russia was able to recruit as many each month.

But now we're seeing a turning point.

Are we seeing now more Russians feeling emboldened to actually talk out publicly, or are they just giving anonymous comments to pollsters when they ring up?

Obviously, if you're an average Russian, you're not going to write on social media that you're against the war.

And if you do, you'll be in jail the next day.

But we've seen a shift among some celebrities, for example, on social media, there was this

beauty blogger who's hugely popular with millions of followers called Victoria Bonya.

She said that the Russian president has lost touch with his population.

She addressed Putin saying, you know, Russians are scared of you.

And then she listed the list of grievances she had with what is going on in the country.

And is she in a gulag now?

No, she actually lives in Monaco.

But I think even if she was in Russia, I don't think the Russian authorities would go after her because she's a massive personality.

I think going after her would reveal some sort of panic in the Kremlin.

Instead, the Kremlin has tried to coerce her.

But we've seen other instances.

There's this huge pro-war community online on Telegram, which is the Russian Facebook slash WhatsApp slash Twitter.

And on Telegram, we've seen pro-war bloggers who have been very loyal to Russia.

the Kremlin, and we've seen that the taboo is breaking that you can't criticize Putin.

And one of these bloggers, I spoke to him in March, his name was Ilya Remyslov, and he went as far as calling for Putin to be put on trial, and he called Putin a war criminal.