One of my best friends has a girlfriend that is from Eastern Ukraine. Her and her mom now live with him. She fled Ukraine in the early days of the war and is a refugee. Nothing to go back to now.
She doesn’t speak Ukrainian; she speaks Russian (and English.. learning German)
She doesn’t like Putin or Zelenskyy. After the war started a law was passed that the Russian speaking regions were no longer allowed to speak Russian or do any government business in Russian it all has to be in Ukrainian.
She doesn’t like Putin bassist of the war and is Ukrainian.
She has family members in Russia right over the border. (Her home village is 20 minutes from border)
The two states have created a very difficult for many of the people who resided in that area. They have more russian (eastern) culture and language but Ukraine nationalism. But now they don’t like either side.
It is a mess that even when it ends will start again… we have been seeing this since WW1 with ethnic people living in a different country which causes problems.
Go to Sued Tirol Italy to see this on display. The sign driving in says “Italy”. Right next to that is a handmade sign on private property that reads “Sid Tirol is Not Italy”. The people have not forgotten and it accepted since Italy’s claim to the land they took in WW1.



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