As a person born in Pittsburgh PA we have a large population of native born Ukrainian people who immigrated here long ago. On my street alone there were 3 house holds with people born there and moved here. And another with second generation who's parents immigrated here. I've had many childhood friends whe were from the Ukraine and as an adult I work with many people who are from there as I work in the labor industry. Being minorities they would often get mad because everyday Americans would just call them Russian thinking its all the same remembering the USSR being older.  I have first hand knowledge of how much love they have for their homeland and their peoples traditions to an extreme level. Some have lived here longer than they lived there yet they still are and will always be Ukrainian even if they are now American citizens. Its deeply troubling to see how this has effects them on a daily level. It has been building since 2014 and even before that but this is horribly terrifying to them and the family they still have back home. From all conversations I've had with dozens of people they do not see the reasons behind what is going on. They are good people, thankful, helpful, loving, passionate and many other things and to see their way of life threatened and the history and future of their home land destroyed for what they see as someone who wants something that back that the used to have but that something does not want to be taken back and is happy on its own. A jealous person who will take what they want with the use of deadly force regardless of who or how they hurt, however doing all of this in the name of reuniting what they believe as one people, yet killing those people while doing this. They see a tyrant playing with real people like a spoiled child will play with action figures.  This will not end well for either side and is a geopolitical cluster fuck that in the end will only hurt the people of both countries now and into the future. I can only imagine a small % of the pain they feel while going threw this.  I love my friends from the Ukraine 🇺🇦 they are some of the most genuine folks I have ever ment in my life and my heart is breaking more and more each day.