As someone with a Russian grandfather, who read all the classics, who took his daughter to the traveling Russian ballet each year where she waited after the sho

As someone with a Russian grandfather, who read all the classics, who took his daughter to the traveling Russian ballet each year where she waited after the show to take the ballerinas flowers, and then was motivated to learn ballet herself, I have HUGE attachments to Russia and Russian culture. But just like my russian speaking Ukrainian friends who called themselves 'Russians from Ukraine' prior to this war but now are just Ukrainian, the war changed everything.