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Please note: he held the speech inside Russia, to a regional assembly of representatives. Massive compromises to avoid getting dragged off stage in 30 seconds.
It's OK to blame him for making those compromises. His speech is an experiment at testing limits / inciting to action. One starts testing limits with small steps and feels if the water is too hot without jumping in (because maybe it's boiling).
However, it is unwise to think that those are his innermost thoughts. He'll keep those to himself... and for saying what he considered possible to say and did say - he will sadly be charged and found guilty.
The essence of his point? "Russia can't win. Ukraine can't win either. Putin has painted himself into a corner and won't stop. Use your influence to stop him in a way that offers him a way out."
This is arguably naive of him to propose, but the only thing he can propose in public, without getting charges of treason heaped on him really fast.
From a viewpoint outside of Russia, yes, his speech was a joke. But I respect that he did hold it, knowing that he'll be charged of something. Outside of Russia, he could have done better holding a speech asking for donations to the AFU. In there, you cannot do that. For some reason, he has decided to stay in there. I guess he believes that some opportunity for action will be available at some time.
That ship has sailed a long time ago. I lived in russia in the 90s and 2000s (I speak fluent russian, still have a mild moscow accent that people bring up if I am not speaking English/Ukrainian). It's very clear that putin is a symptom and the cause is russian society (not every single person of course, but the overwhelming majority).
Forget about Ukraine for a second. If one truly want change in russian society, one has to look at the "results" shown by the russian opposition in the last ~25 years. Even with implicit support of imperialism (не бутерброд с колбасой), it has been a comical failure in every way imaginable.
Yeremeyev is just doing the same fucking thing. Yeremeyev (or whoever) wants change? Then raise at least 50 battalions of russian troops to join RVC/РДК. Anything less than that is either childishly naive or russian "liberal" bullshit that in reality is a lite form of imperialism (why choose a putin lite regime when you can have the real thing?).