Leftist opinions of Putin’s Russia

I’ve seen a lot of people online recently complaining about leftists (generally speaking, not specially M-Ls) being pro Putin. I have literally never seen any leftist talk about Putin positively. Is this just non-leftists mistakingly assuming Russia=communism or are there actual leftists who hold this opinion?

Edit: After skimming the comments I’ve sorta confirmed that my initial thoughts were correct: bored online people are making up a type of person to get mad at lol. If they do exist, they’re way too rare for the amount of posts I see complaining about it.

tl;dr: i need to stop using twitter