The longer the war drags on and the longer Ukrainian people see Russian people as supporting Putin’s actions in Ukraine, the more you are going to see them turning away from Russian culture and literature.
Putin caused that.
Until 2014 Russian was a secondary language in Ukraine and Russia had soft-power, just as English has in Ireland or Hindi in southern India.
But with Putin’s actions since 2014, and especially since 2022, he is turning Ukrainians away from anything to do with Russian culture or language or literature.
“...you are going to see them turning away from Russian culture and literature...”
That is true of my wife as well. She is a Russian speaker from Alchevsk and now has more of an interest in Ukrainian. Even in the Donbas, the Ukrainian language survives in the smaller agricultural villages. My wife’s beloved grandmother spoke an intergradient between the two languages.