Fun fact : during the late 2015 Mariupol elections, almost 50% self-identified as Russian, 80% as Ukrainian, fewer than 20% as European, and more than 50% as... Soviet !
(Note also that this happened not too long after a pretty bloody phase of the war, though of course less bloody than what we had since last February, especially in Mariupol.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61480988
(Note also that this happened not too long after a pretty bloody phase of the war, though of course less bloody than what we had since last February, especially in Mariupol.)