You may have met Svidomite trolls before this current military escalation saying things like Ukrainian volunteers battalions all come from the East of the country and speak Russian. This is true, and what is also true is that a concerted effort was made in the East of the country to convert local radicals, that is football hooligans and Neonazis, to Ukrainian nationalism in the 2000’s. This is why the volunteer battalions were all mostly from the East.
But alongside these volunteers, radicals, and psychopaths, there is also a silent majority of the Easterners…
Insomniac Resurrected 