Same for me - it takes a time to decipher Cyrillic script for someone who uses Latin alphabet, while I'm able to read and understand Czech, Slovak and to some d

Same for me - it takes a time to decipher Cyrillic script for someone who uses Latin alphabet, while I'm able to read and understand Czech, Slovak and to some degree read south Slavic group languages. I've witness a scene last March where social services clerk tried to help Ukrainian mother get some social benefit - they were able to understand each other in speech but not in the written words. At the end of conversation she suggested that it would be better if woman would translate her documents into Polish by a sworn translator. The clerk was in 50s and she probably still could remember something from spoken Russian - which was at some point a language taught in Polish schools during PPR times. As for the Latynka - it's of course up to Ukrainians but personally I believe that would be a good political move to separate themselves from Russia even more. Kazakhstan did change writing system few years ago [1] and I'm pretty sure that one of the former SSR of Soviet Union also reverted to Latin script while being previously forced to use Cyrillic script [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_language#Writing_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_language#Writing_system