Listening to a woman from Dnepropetrovsk yelling curses at us, saying that we once were greeted as guests in her city... Yes, I liked her city so much, that I decided to be born there in 1974 and stayed for 17 years, even graduated in 1991, with a gold medal, from school #111, 600 meters from that building hit by a rocket. Then I went to Moscow, then came independence, then the anti-Russian coup, and, finally, in 2014, the laws that made it a crime to publicly question Ukraine's independence & territorial integrity, e.g. to support anti-Maidan or a

Seriously, imagine if the West said: "OK, Russia, we believe in the will of Ukrainian people. Let's stop the fighting & have a referendum in every contested oblast' of Ukraine. Anonymous, with international observers, every resident voting, no matter where they live today." And that's it, that's the end of the war that the hypocritical "friends of Ukraine" have been demanding! The war wouldn't even start in 2014, when DPR guys asked for a referendum in Donbas, if Maidanites agreed to respect the will of the people, instead of sending the army.

On traitors & loyalists: I was born & raised in Ukraine, I never emigrated or applied for a foreign passport, and yet I've always been the citizen of the same country as Putin & other Russian citizens - first the USSR, then Russia (I got a stamp in my Soviet passport in 1992). Even stranger, although I have nothing to do with the state of Ukraine (no passport, never even applied for a visa), I've never left Ukraine to emigrate or even live abroad. In 1991, I went to Moscow, the capital of my country the USSR, as a student - then Ukraine left me...