So what? I’ve been to Zaporizhzhia many times. Donbas and Crimea are nothing like Zaporizhzhia these days.
Zaporizhzhia embraces all aspects of its regional identity. Russian Ukrainians and Galicians get along very well. The 2014-19 conflict didn’t really touch Zaporizhzhia.
That’s why so many people fleeing the Donbas, and Mariupol, went to Zaporizhzhia... To be defended by Ukrainians.
I have been to Zaporozhiye in the 1980s. It was no different than Donbas.