Ukraine was not conducting ethnic cleansing.
“Ethnic Russians” or “Russian speakers are not “suppressed” as you claim - I am basing my conclusion on the experience I had in hosting refugees from Ukraine here in Poland — I live right next to the border, Most of the refugees I helped were escaping Kyiv but also those escaping Donetsk and Luhansk
All were primarily Russian speakers. Some identified as “ethnic Russian”, but they all said they were Ukrainian
I have asked them (we’re in contact with quite a few of them even though they moved either back to Kyiv (for the Kyiv folks) or to Krakow/Warszawa for others - anyway so I asked them if they, the Russian ethnic people or Russian speakers felt “oppressed”
The response, the overwhelming response from them regarding this was - utter bewilderment. They all said that they didn’t feel oppressed, suppressed for being Russian or /Russian speakers. They all also were P*ssed off wth putin for “saving” them by destroying their cities, their homes
Before 2014 they felt close to Russia. After Putin’s invasion in 2022, they identify as Ukrainian - and they were taking efforts to speak only Ukrainian — as a personal sign of defiance against Putin
So Putin has actually turned Russian ethnics in Ukraine against being “Russian”
Furthermore, I have colleagues who live and work in Krakow and have lived there since 2014 — Russian “ethnics”, Russian speakers who fled Putin’s 2014 invasion and came to Poland, not to Russia.
So don’t repeat the Putinist propaganda please
Says you. Your anecdotal stories are not convincing.