My home is Kyiv. I've been in Kyiv the entire war. It's rare to ever hear a conversation in Ukrainian in Kyiv, most people speak Russian. Even though lately so

My home is Kyiv. I've been in Kyiv the entire war. It's rare to ever hear a conversation in Ukrainian in Kyiv, most people speak Russian. Even though lately some people I know have tried to "switch" to Ukrainian (most people are bi-lingual), they have all switched back to Russian pretty fast. Ukrainian is strongly promoted, and legislated in many situations. But, I think you have summed it up nicely with "almost nothing". I've never seen any repression of the "Russian minority", prior to this war. This is just anecdotal of course. Many Ukrainians have either Russian friends, or extended family, or heritage. However, now, I assume Russians will be persecuted in Ukraine pretty much forevermore. BTW, I'm not Ukrainian or Russian, I just live in Ukraine.