Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s approval rating has fallen at its fastest weekly pace since 2022, according to polling data from two major Russian state-linked survey organizations.The independent Russian outlet Agentstvo reported that the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), which regularly conducts polling for the Kremlin, recorded a 5-percentage-point drop in the share of Russians who approve of Putin’s performance.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.According to the latest survey, 66% of respondents said they approve of Putin’s work as president, down from 71% a week earlier. FOM has not recorded such a steep weekly decline since late September and early October 2022, when Russia announced its partial military mobilization.The poll also found that 16% of respondents now disapprove of Putin’s performance, the highest level recorded since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Public trust in Putin also declined, though less sharply. According to FOM, 67% of respondents said they trust the Russian president, down 2 percentage points from the previous week, while 20% said they do not trust him, up 2 percentage points. Both figures mark the most unfavorable levels recorded since the start of the war.Support for the Russian government also weakened. The share of respondents who positively assessed the government’s performance fell 4 percentage points to 41%, while 37% expressed a negative view.