The West may not notice Ukraine, but The Ukrainian revolution of dignity was Pro-European. Many young people then went to the front war zone to fight as a volunteers, because they did not put up with the arrogance of Putin’s Russia.
Among the soldiers there are educated very young guys. They left their careers, girls, some left a good job and went to war because they do not want to accept the expansionism, authoritarianism and totalitarianism of formidable neighbor.( Putin’s Russia)
And at this time, the older generation is nostalgic for the USSR, or raving about the idea of fraternal peoples. Of course often the old generation of the colonial past is the incurably spoiled generation.