Says who? The NY Times? Biden? CNN?? They are the 4th most corrupt nation on earth and your president just rewarded that criminality with $55bn dollars from the US taxpayers. Wake up please. We are in trouble.
I’ve never been to the Unkraine, but I did know Ukrainian immigrants, back in the seventies, who had Ukrainian flags and “Free Ukraine” posters in their dorms.
So I don’t consider it impossible.
Nothing creates as sense of patriotism than a clearly evil oppressor. And Ukraine has had plenty of that.