Yeah, Russia did not withdraw from Kyiv because their tank columns were destroyed and their logistics sucked so bad they had no ammo or gas - they withdrew because of requests from Europe….and got played by Ukraine.
V-boggers sympathetic to the war did not like what Putin said in China. Several bloggers noted that the entire meeting was to show that China was now the center of power, and that people like Putin were vassals. One of the pro military bloggers said that he felt humiliated by Putin telling the world that Europe and Ukraine played Russia. That is not the look of the leader of anti-western countries, but the sad story of being made a chump and telling it on yourself in front of your boss.
Another V blogger said that Moscow was filled with festivals that were all free, and there was free music and art and everyone in Moscow had never had more to do for free. The blogger liked it to a woman who bought and wore a beautiful expensive dress, even though her husband lost a limb in combat and her children had nothing to eat, but she had a pretty dress and went to the party anyway.
This was on Constantine’s Inside Russia YouTube channel, and he said the degree of criticism of Putin by the pro military V bloggers was the most extreme he had seen. Apparently Russians don’t seem to care so much if everyone views them as war criminals, just as long as they are viewed as powerful war criminals who are respected and feared.