His support is close to all time high. I have family living there. Not from a news channel but people in ground reporting. Whatever you are hearing to make you think this you seriously should get better sources. I’m not a fan of Putin nor the evil Ukraine government. There both bad guys and totally corrupt. That said it’s always the people who suffer not these evil corrupt government leaders. It’s pure evil seeing my nation (American government) push Ukraine away from a peace talk. It’s just going to draw this out and kill so many more.