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Has the ongoing conflict influenced/changed your opinion on Ukraine and Russia? If yes, how? If not, why?
no. it is just how i thought it would be. russia started this conflict and is threatening other countries. they want more land even though they have the most land on the planet. that's why it started back in 2014. everything ukrainians are doing is defending themselves and their country.
i never liked russia. i like it even less now. two world wars revealed the russian face. i have relatives who lived through the war and remember the horrors.
no, it did not change. i always knew that russia is capable of starting the war.
yes, it shows that russia is ruled by a dictator who calls himself a president.
no
mostly it has proved to me that the western values are truly hollow - they are ready to fight to the last ukrainian in order to defeat russia. they talk about war crimes, but never mention the illegal wars of the west and its own war crimes (such as iraq). they target russians with sanctions and restrictions, though collective punishment is considered universally wrong. the west has broken all its values during this conflict, among them the right to own property. truly, considering the illegal coup of 2014 in ukraine, they could have just ended the nato expansion. it's big enough already and recent events show that adding new members is a really hard process anyway.
it did not. i have always had a very negative view about russia.
russia has completely lost any shred of confidence in its democracy. ukraine, on the other hand, has shown its true ability to fight back and forced me to take further interest in its history.
no, not really. russians are very proud of their culture; they always have been. history repeats itself; they come to "rescue."
i started to be more sure that ukrainians are really a strong nation and we can do everything we want and everything that people need to make our lives better.