Yeah I recall reading that apart from the puppet president, a lot of Belarusians aren't exactly pro-russian.
I just had a long, upset message from a very close Belarusian friend, who I met when we were at uni in China. Our friends there were a mix of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian - not so many Russians for me, who tended not to be so friendly with the Brits there (with exceptions), but those nationalities used to do everything together. I remember being confused about her being so pro-Russia when we first met, their shared histories etc, it just never made sense to me that she was a well educated, well travelled young person, who had to circumvent censorship in her own country to get hold of textbooks on various topics, to still support them so firmly.
Needless to say, that's changed over the past few years, and she's just distraught now. Our close group of friends was me, her and two Ukrainians, one of whom is now in Canada, but the other is in Kyiv (who also messaged yesterday to say she's ok). She's upset not just at what's happening to a country she had such close connections to, but also that she feels people are judging Belarusians for not doing more to prevent it - people there obviously being conscious of the crackdowns on the protests two years ago.
I'd absolutely agree that the actions of the government do not have support from the population there.