@Paul_Friesen Sorry but you’re promoting lies. Speaking russian was not only always fine in Ukraine (and still is) but unfortunately it’s the most used language in every day life. I get the ideas that it’s dumb to try to return these territories with all the defense russia has managed to build there but your take is just not true. And “forcing Ukrainian culture” - can you tell me in which way? It was always an underdog with systematic soviet oppression