From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernicee, and this is the Daily.

Days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Kremlin made it a crime to oppose the war in public.

And since then, it's waged a relentless campaign of repression, putting Russian citizens in jail

for offenses as small as holding a poster or sharing a news article on social media.

My colleague Valerie Hopkins has been reporting inside Russia on those who continue to speak

out despite the risks and explains why their government is so determined to silence them.

That's Tuesday, April 11th.

Valerie, tell me about this reporting you've been doing about dissent in Russia.

Well, as we've discussed before on the show, Sabrina, I've been trying to understand

how Russians really view this war.

We know there's a sizable group that fully and completely support the war.

And the images that we see quite often in the West and in Western media are of people

enthusiastically supporting the war, clapping for Putin, waving flags of the rallies, and

sending their boys off to fight with cheering.

But actually, you know, being on the ground in Russia, you can slowly find a different

picture emerging.

And what is that picture?

Starting around Russia the past six months, I've been actually surprised by how many people

tell me that they hate this war.

Including many who, once they find out I'm a foreigner, usually in hushed tones or quietly,

tell me like they really want me to know that most people that they know don't support this

war, that not all Russians support this war, that they're ashamed and that they're really

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