Eric, I consider this post a primitive trollism. It is somewhat insulting to even read it.
But I'm going to accept your "confusion", even it looks like deliberately chosen bait.
You are confusing Russians with Russia.
From the day one of the conflict Russian officials were saying that there are many ethnic Russians in Ukraine and i don't see anything wrong with that expression said by potentially ethnic Russian.
As for "criminal gang stuff", there are many different opinions on that topic, some consider current Ukrainian president to be in "criminal gang stuff" but I don't see any point of discussing that with you, you made it very clear in your previous posts, that you prefer to deny any positive facts that would be related to Russians.
Just try not to throw insults and do not create ethnic and national hatred here.
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