alex (23) schrieb am 22.06.2024 15:04:
Ihnen ist schon klar, dass Millionen Ukrainer in Russland leben, ihrer Arbeit nachgehen und ihre Kinder großziehen. Viele russische Familien haben ukrainische Verwandte. Russland hat seit 1991 bis 2013 die Ukraine maßgeblich finanziert und subventioniert. Der Krieg hat andere Gründe und eine Vorgeschichte. Dies kann man natürlich komplett ausblenden. Nur kommt es dann zu fatalen Fehlentscheidungen.
Insofern war Russland Politik natürlich fatal für das Ansehen Russlands in der Ukraine, weil man eine unabhängige Politik der Ukraine nicht akzeptieren wollte.
Maria Popova, Oxana Shevel: Russia and Ukraine. Entangled Histories, Diverging States. Polity Press, 2024, ISBN 978-1-5095-5737-0, S. 220–221:
"The war’s disproportional destruction and occupation of parts of the eastern and southern regions has nearly wiped out pro-Russian sentiment in Ukraine, both in terms of geopolitical orientation to the Russian state and in terms of warm attitudes toward the Russian people. Even after Russia annexed Crimea and, while it maintained the war in Donbas, many Ukrainians still supported a friendly relationship with Russia and held positive views toward Russians even as positive views toward the Russian leadership plummeted. In a 2018 Rating poll, only 23 % held negative attitudes to the Russian people and polling throughout the post-Maidan period showed that 44 to 48 % thought Ukraine and Russia should be friendly independent nations. After the full-scale invasion, 92 % of Ukrainians view Russians negatively (May 2022 KIIS poll) and only 11 % want a friendly relationship with Russia (July 2022 KIIS poll).
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine was Putin’s last-ditch attempt to prevent Ukraine from decisively separating from Russia. Russia justified the attack in large part in identity terms: Russians and Ukrainians were one people, Putin argued, and the “special military operation” was supposed to liberate Ukrainian people oppressed by the post-Maidan “neo-Nazi” government bent on denying Russian–Ukrainian organic unity against the wishes of the Ukrainians. His military escalation, however, led to the all but complete separation of Ukraine from Russia. Profound identity changes that began after the Euromaidan and have accelerated since the invasion mean that Ukraine – ironically in large measure due to Putin’s aggression – became decidedly more Ukrainian. Since 2000, pollsters have asked Ukrainians what they consider themselves and have given various local, subnational, national, and global identity options. Throughout the last two decades, the share of people who choose to call themselves “citizen of Ukraine” has increased from 41 % in 2000 to 65 % in the run-up to the full-scale invasion in February 2022. By July 2022, the share jumped to 85 %."