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Hey dude. I'm a Ukrainian from Kharkiv, currently living in Sweden. Just wanted to say - thanks for the AMA. It is nice to hear from people in Donetsk/Luhansk regions that support the Ukrainian side. In Kharkiv I think it has been more or less 50-50, but recently the scales have tipped to the Ukrainian side.

Just imagine that all this shit is over. Rebels flee to Russia and Ukraine is at peace again. How do you think we should continue living side by side with some of our fellow Ukrainians who are filled with Russian propaganda and ideas about "the Western threat"?

Will you go on talking to/being friends with your classmates/pals/relatives who supported the rebels? I know there was always a divide between Western and "soviet"-oriented Ukrainians, but it has recently been made so much worse by Russian lies and stories about "fascists", so I don't even know how we can come back to living as one country again...

What's also awful is that the majority of my Russian friends completely changed their attitudes towards Ukraine during the last 5-6 months. They think that there really WAS a fascist threat in Ukraine after maidan. They think the Ukrainians brought down the Malaysian plane despite all the evidence and shifty behavior of pro-Russian rebels... I guess we will only be able to put our differences behind us when (if) Russian propaganda machine finally stops spewing all this ridiculous crap.

Anyway, thanks. Тримайся там.

Things are not that simple, buddy. I'm from the Eastern Ukraine and I despise the Russian government. I would say that there are a lot of people in that part of Ukraine (Kharkiv) who hate Putin and even hate Russians after the recent events...