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Most Ukrainians are not pro-Russian

By Adam Zivo
Published November 7, 2022 11:00am ET
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Most Ukrainians are not pro-Russian
Some believe that Russian-speaking Ukrainians want to join Russia. This may have been true to some extent 10 years ago, but it’s emphatically not the case now. President Vladimir Putin’s war has extinguished almost all of the Russophilia that once existed in the country. Pro-Russian sentiments are concentrated in the Russian-speaking east and south, particularly […]


Some believe that Russian-speaking Ukrainians want to join Russia. This may have been true to some extent 10 years ago, but it’s emphatically not the case now. President Vladimir Putin’s war has extinguished almost all of the Russophilia that once existed in the country.

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