Some points an admin from our sister channel Free Russia Report noted while monitoring ruZZian and russian channels:

Comments on various russian channels have been increasingly pessimistic, full of despair, black humour, and a sense of impending doom. Fascinating and revealing.

The lack of social empathy is startlingly clear. There is a certain delight in the misfortunes of others; the suffering of other Russians is particularly relished - they're probably vatnik scum anyway is the attitude. (Ethnic and religious tensions and rivalries are another layer of complexity on top)
There's mutual hatred between and within all groups. Putinists hate anyone not supporting the regime; zetniks hate everybody and are beginning to direct this toward the regime; those who oppose the war are a disparate and divided group, and both sides despise the vast apathetic blob in the middle who ignore it all.

There's more resentment and open anger at the regime since Kursk invasion - particularly the blatant lies told by all levels of the authorities. There is not a great deal of sympathy for the affected population, same for any russian affected by the war in Belgorod or elsewhere. Instead a kind of satisfaction - "you wanted war, well here it is.

I'd say there's a growing anger not just at this regime but everything else that came before it in all russian history. . There's no hope that change will bring anything better; they simply can't comprehend how russia can be anything other that what it is. Everything and everybody is rotten through and through, beyond all repair. Unless everything is completely destroyed it will always be so. They know everything is headed toward collapse one way or another. An increasing number expect massive destruction from a wider war, and some welcome it.

Fear of the 90s is palpable, which creates a kind of inertia. So far life isn't as hard hungry and violent as those years but it's getting there. The hunger games will begin, says one russian. The 90s will seem a picnic in comparison, says another.

Anger is rising, a kind of generalised rage at life and everybody else, and it's increasingly directed at the elite and those in authority. There's an element of anger at the sheer stupidity of the regime, its theft, cruelty and lack of concern for citizens. Bloody ends for various public figures are discussed with pleasure.

Notable - there are a LOT of Ukrainians in russian channels. On anti-regime channels I've seen many discussions where Ukrainians explain their history, and the real russian history, to Russians - who ask more questions. They tell russians truth of the war and their own regime.

There are always waves of angry Ukrainians in the channels after particularly savage or tragic actioñs by russian forces. They make it abundantly clear that the old fraternal bonds between russians and Ukrainians are broken beyond repair.
However -- there are civil discussions with russians who support Ukraine and not Putin. The Ukrainians clearly understand that it's too dangerous to openly oppose the regime, but there's an element of contempt for all russians for allowing putin to take total control, and not stopping him long before 2014.

There's a lot of families inside russia broken by opinion on the war. Relatives no longer speaking, children estranged from parents. A lot of comments from people in despair because their whole family believes the propaganda. The general estimate is at most 10% don't believe it, and there's mutual hatred on both sides.

Russians fear the end of the war because it means 'heroes of the SVO', who they despise, return home to terrorise them. As the relative few who returned already are. In return, soldiers are full of rage and resentment towards the citizens 'living their fat life' at home. The general expectation is that life would become extremely violent ....