Moscow: The invasion of Ukraine initially met with clapping, applause in Russia, as the challenges started haunting after Putin’s full-fledged war against Ukraine, Russia is experiencing a noticeable mood change. As dark clouds starts looming over its economy, reality woke up even most of pro-Kremlin analysts and experts on Russian state television.

Despite the government's totalitarian attempts to control the narrative, the brutal reality about Russia's invasion of Ukraine is slipping through the cracks.

The situation is such in Russia that the state-owned media attempting to turn the situation upside down, presenting false narratives. Last Saturday, a guest on 60 minutes stated that Ukrainians are fighting with each other and firing on each other, and blaming Russia.

On Wednesday's episode of the state TV show The Evening With Vladimir Soloviev, the host claimed that the aftermath of Russia's bombing of a maternity hospital this week was "fake," with no one injured, despite images of pregnant women being carried away from the blast, which killed at least one child. 

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on Thursday, maintained that Russia never attacked Ukraine and reiterated the very same claims as Soloviev about the maternity wing and children's hospital blasted by Russia.

Putin's most trusted propagandists are getting increasingly anxious to misrepresent or reject the proof of atrocities since the truth is breaking through the Kremlin's barricades. The Russian population is dissatisfied with both the war and the financial cost of their leader's ill-conceived military conquests.

Even the show by Soloviev, who was  recently sanctioned as a Putin accomplice by the European Union, became dominated by prophecies of Russian doom and gloom.

"This period will not be easy for our country," said Andrey Sidorov, deputy dean of world politics at Moscow State University. It will be quite challenging. It could be much more difficult than the Soviet Union experienced from 1945 through the 1960s... We're more connected to the global economy than the Soviet Union, we're more reliant on imports—and the major reason is that the Cold War was, first and foremost, a war of minds. Unfortunately, the Soviet Union's structure was constructed on a consolidating premise. Russia, unlike the Soviet Union, has nothing comparable.

The Russian official media’s traditional propaganda tropes blame the US for launching a war with Russia and trying to prolong it so that Russia could suffer. By prolonging the war, public opinion in Russia is shifting. 

People are astonished by the large number of refugees and the humanitarian disaster, and they begin to envision themselves in their shoes. It's starting to affect them. To suggest that the Nazis are doing this is not entirely convincing... Furthermore, economic sanctions will begin to have a significant impact on them. There will almost certainly be scarcity. We don't make a lot of things, even the most basic ones. There will be layoffs. It's a well-thought-out operation... Yes, the United States is at war with Russia... These penalties are aimed squarely at us.