I understand Soros was behind every attempt to sow distrust between the two brotherly nations, Ukraine and Russia. I’ve read Shevchenko and Hetman Mazepa were financed by him as well.
Just about everyone in America has natural mistrust of Putin for reasons that have little to do with Putin.
The atheists hate him because he is an avuncular Christian.
The Protestants hate him because he favors the Orthodox church over know-nothing American missionaries who think that all Orthodox are Soviets, even though the Soviets kills 85,000 out of 86,000 Orthodox priests. (Russia doesn’t exempt attacks on religion from laws against slander, like the US and Europe do in practice.)
The Catholics want their Catholic churches back that the Soviets took from them to give to lackeys.
The neo-cons hate him because hating Russians is all they know how to do.
The liberals hate him because he doesn’t support anal sex as a holy lifestyle and doesn’t buy into the leftwing European Union.
He gets hated because he’s blamed for the existence of the oligarchs; then when breaks up the oligarchies, he’s accused of anti-democratically routing out potential rivals.