Um…you don’t understand that about 50% of Ukrainians are pro-Russian? And many speak Russian as their first language? You must have gone to an American public school.
I’m sure that Ukrainians fully support the efforts of their Russian liberators.
Again, you don’t know your history at all...go read up on the Eastern front of WW2 for a few years and maybe refrain from commenting on the current situation until you have done so. Von Manstein’s memoir Lost Victories is a good place for a beginner like you to start with. You are dismissed and have earned a D-.
<<>> Speaking Russian does not equate to being pro-Russian, especially when the leader of Russia is trying to kill you.
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What happened? How Kharkiv which used to be culturally and politically pro-Russian so quickly turned super anti-Russian? It's a huge cultural change and a very recent one. And the answer would be: Putin's conflict manufacturing strategy killed pro-Russian sentiments in Ukraine
When Putin manufactured the Donbass War he presented it as an Ukrainian inner conflict. Many in Russia bought it. Many in the West bought it. Many idiots even now talk about "Ukraine shelling civilians of Donbass for eight years". Bad Ukrainians being bad, that caused the war
Nobody in Ukraine bought it. Russians and Westerners considered the Donbass catastrophe as a Ukrainian problem. In Ukraine however, it was seen as a Russian problem. Donbass was simply a part of Ukraine which fall under the Russian rule and its nightmare was purely Russian-made.