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The officer ranks tend to be better informed and smarter in general, and those guys have seen their ranks dwindle noticeably since this entire thing started. Four general officers KIA is not small potatoes. And if reports are correct that 75% of his fighting force has been utilized for this, there aren't a whole lot left who are "in the dark" so to speak.
I think you're thinking that they think this is a "dark." My pessimism comes from learning that "the truth will set you free" won't apply here, because Russian citizen's "truth" is incongruent with the war stopping. The information war inside of Russia has been that successful.
Yes, there are protests, but it doesn't look like those protests reflect the majority of Russian citizen's views.