Why is Kharkiv resisting like tigers?
If it’s only the Galician nationalists who hate Putin?
You don’t need a great percentage of the population to be against you in a city of two million. VSU are fighting dirty, placing MRLS and SPGs in residential areas.
If you’d look at “protests” in other locations, they are laughable, like astroturfed crowds of 200 people.
80% east of Dnieper want the Russians there.