High-profile resignations and a report that Russian elites are displeased with the Russian president point to waning support for Putin's war.
, and Arkady Dvorkovich, a former Russian deputy prime minister who quit his position as chairman of the state-sponsored Skolkovo Foundation.
The site stated that Putin's initial decision to go to war"horrified most Kremlin and ministerial officials, who feared that Western sanctions would ruin their careers and maybe even their lives." Soon, though, patriotism brought some pro-war sentiment, but that dissipated by April. Now, many prominent figures want the war over.
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