Ukraine has lost 14,000 KIA fighting Russian-backed insurgents since 2014 - that's 2x our casualties in the Revolutionary War.

In 2002 I was running a police executive management course for foriegn police at a US location. We had police ranking officials from countries with contiguous land borders or sea borders/trade routes. One session we had Byelorussians, Russians, and Ukrainians - while all read/wrote/spoke Russian, the Ukrainian govt insisted on Ukrainian language printed material and simultaneous interpretation. That was because the official position was (and is) that the Russian period in Ukraine was a forced occupation during which millions of Ukranians were killed or starved to death. I had no idea of the antipathy between Ukrainians and Russians until that point.

Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia all consider the Russians, who occupied their countries until the Soviet Union collapsed, the same as the Nazis, who also occupied their countries.