I've seen a lot of indications that plenty of people all over Ukraine, including in the military and security services, would like Russia to 'win' and to be rid of the NAtoZI creeps that Nudelman-Kagan and the CIA put in in their color revolution 8 years ago.

One reason why AFU is getting so wrecked by Russia and DPR is probably that there are plenty of Ukrainians feeding them info, carefully sabotaging things, allowing the Jewkrainian 'leadership' to make mistakes, etc.  Probably the GRU knew this but mis-estimated how it would translate to the street level which could partially explain some of Russia's earlier miscalculations which were unnecessarily costly.  Correcting those mistakes ended up being a lot harder on infrastructure and civilian safety which is a shame.  That's water under the bridge however.

Here's another indication, and one which would indicate that the the navel forces are even less influenced by the inland Nazis and Jewkrainian 'leadership':

  https://www.bitchute.com/video/KW0w97yzkvY8/

Of course one has to keep in mind that the report is via Russian mainstream media, but outwardly it doesn't seem to be a clown-shoe 100% whole-cloth fabrication as is the norm for the Western mainstream press.