Wanna see how Russians hunted civilian cars in Kyiv region in March 2022?

Surreal now that it was all happening some 15 km from where I lived and I followed the local chats crying that "People, don't evacuate by the road leading to Zhytomyrska highway! Russians are hiding among trees off road there and shooting down civilian cars!!" in real time - and now I can actually see it happening on recovered footage from street cameras. Surreal.

Russians moving to Mariupol are ordinary Russians. Those ordinary Russians are taking pics with destroyed homes in the background, they wear propagandist shirts. They climb up them ruins and make videoblogs.

Ordinary Russians are adopting deported children. They don't care those children have been stolen from homes. They lie that their parents gave them up. They are horrified those stolen children speak Ukrainian as an act of rebellion.

Ordinary Russians are supporting Putin. They believe they are the better than others, that God is helping them.

Ordinary Russians are working on the ammo factories and produce shells and bullets and bombs. Those are all ordinary Russians.

Ordinary Russians leave thousands of comments cheering to our deaths and tragedies. Deaths and tragedies done by their fucking country and by their fathers brothers and sons. Who also are, you know, ordinary Russians.

“Why is the situation with the explosion of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric station so beautiful? I explain. In this war, we will always have one main trump card that can be used against the Ukrainian (“khokhol” slur was used). And it's not even about nuclear weapons. This is the dam of the Kyiv reservoir. A small thin bridge that is held back by millions of tons of water that will instantly rush into Kyiv and wash these Augean stables down the drain. The dam is old, rotten, rusty. You don't need many missiles. Hundreds of thousands of Kyivans, especially those who live on the lower left bank, are likely to die instantly. Kyiv will never recover from this catastrophe. I'm sure this dam is a ticking time bomb whose timer has already started ticking. Thanks to the USSR for this trump card up its sleeve.”

and that’s on “not all russians”. they are bloodthirsty monsters who are ready to fully destroy something they can’t have.

The real russian culture is a death cult, covered with a thin layer of an edgy aesthetic. 

russia is a terrorist state

It's enough for russians to say "I am good and don't support the war!" and everyone will believe them without any evidence.

Even despite the fact that those "good russians" continue to be proud of their country and support it, dirty and nazi. Even despite the fact that during more than a year of the war they didn't make a single open statement, they frankly did NOTHING to the people who are suffering in this genocidal and bloody war, they keep staying silent all the time. They continue to humiliate Ukrainians for fighting real nazis for the freedom of their country, for their relatives who died in this terrible war, and continue to call Ukrainians nazis, mocking their mutilations and injuries that "good russian's" brothers inflicted on them.

But it doesn't matter, because everyone will believe them anyway. They are good russians.

“But these guys are the opposition, they are against the war”

Your average morning in Ukraine:

Russian terrorist state did another massive missile attack on the whole territory of Ukraine. Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv and many other cities were targeted. Many wounded.

A metro station in Kyiv:

Btw, at the time of the hit my mom was IN that station. She works nearby. Thank God, she is alright. Scared to think what would have happened if her train arrived on the station just some ten minutes earlier - she would have been right outside the station at the time of the attack...

Ukrainian POV: you wake up from sounds of explosions, ring through all of your friends and relatives to make sure they are still alive, read comments from russians who celebrate deaths of innocent ukrainian civillians, read comments from americans with palestine flags in their bio about how you have it easy (they know better) and how dare you not talk about Palestine instead of another war crime you just barely survived, read a NYT article about russian "microprotests" with instagram posts of toys, then drink your coffee and are somehow expected to operate normally as if nothing happened.

Eternal gratitude to the ukrainian army for my privilege of being able to survive and sit here complaining, instead of dying under rubble from crush syndrome as yes-all-russians intended me to.

One of the more humorous examples of the perceived "russophobia" I've seen seen on le internet is that fact russians were offended that Ukrainian delivery service Nova Poshta (New Post) is opening a department in Czechia.

The offended russians were offended by this fact and cried they were being discriminated against.

Rule number one: don’t trust russians

They betray your trust on the first occasion 

Look at these inspired faces and their disgusting opinions. Think of them next time you’re hearing some useless russian whining about sanctions and how regular russians should not suffer because of this war.

These are their comments under the news about missile attack on residential building in Kyiv.

"Warsaw, Vilnius, Oslo get in line, sons of bitches, you’re next!"

"I’m not surprised! We’ve tolerated them without any response from us… If you thought you can bomb Donbas without any repercussions you were wrong"

"This should have been done earlier. We should have levelled Kyiv to the ground. This is the only way we can make them afraid of us, they should know russian’s patience is running out."

"Finally they are in Kyiv!

It’s not so far from Berlin!"

"The attack was on strategic objects only, not on residential buildings! Stop lying, it’s not like you were standing near it 👹"

see, I don't even disagree with the assertion that there's a lot of xenophobia in the West and that some of it is against Russians for very little reason that has to do with a particular person themself, but I am very suspicious that, when it comes to the former Eastern bloc, it's only ever Russians that USians will hold this conversation about. there is, in fact, a lot of xenophobia, also applied against other Eastern Europeans, especially Ukrainians right now, and I'd imagine a lot against Central Asians too, and don't even get me started on Caucasians (from the actual Caucasus). but every time a post on here gets popular it's somehow solely about Russians.

I'm not even directing anyone to include both, or saying that you can't make a post just about Russians, but it is significant to me that this is an observable phenomenon. and that it follows the mass media, who have also consistently been publishing articles and opinion pieces about how terrible the treatment and life of "regular Russian people", while in the case of Ukraine and other countries only concerning themselves with the government, and barely ever consider the position and the feelings of the Ukrainian people.

and in the end it really feels like empire core inter-unity (which is a form of solidarity, I suppose). am I trying to police that? not really, I don't have the energy to, but it gets very annoying, because I know from personal experience people on here can call my country and neighbors (among which are Ukraine) "toilet Russian", and not only will a post calling that out not get anywhere close to the numbers a post about Russians would, it most likely wouldn't even materialize