Russia can’t call ukrainians ukrainians because everyone here knows at least a couple of persons with ukrainian background or a surname. They only call them ukronazis, ukrofascist to distant them and further dehumanize, to sell it to public. And then, if you look at formations actively participating in the conflict, there are intermixed remains of said Azov on one side, a shadow from their autonomous existence in 2014, and actively recruiting neo-paganist Rusich with their head Milchakov saying on an open mic he’s a nazi and still walking free as we talk.

There’s indeed no bothsiding about it.

And whenever you see a ukrainian hatred against russians, you should put it into a context of nine years of continuous violence against them. It’s maybe irrational, maybe unreasonably grouping the whole country together, but would you really ackshually them out of speaking about their pain? I’m a russian, and I understand it, and that our failure to hold onto power in the 00s now led to some 100k+ people cities being brought to the ground for no fucking reason, all that fear, and hatred, and loss. Half of them woke up to artillery blasts, ducked and covered, slept in metro and basements, had electric and other outages, if not lost relatives or have some serving on the outposts. It’s obvious why they don’t like us.

If some american or european would try to downplay it, you can use our secret slavic spell. It sounds dee nakh. Say it to them. Say it again. They’d not know it means ‘go fuck yourself’, but they’d certainly feel it.

And OP can eat some berries - green ones, purple ones, bloody ones. In the end, they are all the same. And there’s no bunch of corpses laying under one of these plants, winking, suggesting one won’t like to eat them.