Russians Address Ukrainians on War's 2-Year Anniversary

What message do Russians have for Ukrainians on the war's 2-year anniversary? We took to the streets of Moscow to ask ordinary people if there's anything they'd like to say to everyday Ukrainians

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[YesItsReallyKeith]

it's amazing that in the day of mass communication, some are still clueless and in the dark about what is really happening !!!

[Groaznic]

The young girl "we understand everything but our hands are tied". Just incredible.

[RnB]

FYI: Active conflict is going since 2014

[joesmoker]

Russian people just don't understand that Ukraine does not want to be a part of Russia and doesn't want Russia involved in any way in how Ukraine runs Their country!

[mikehorn]

The war is depressing for me as an American. As the cold war fizzled out and prior to the recent decade Russians and Americans were unashamed partners in space exploration. Our countries cooperated in building a space station and helped each other achieve our goals in performing some of the greatest scientific accomplishments in human history. It's awful to see war and destruction has taken over cooperation and progress. We went from sending people to live in space to sending them to die in the dirt.

[andrewgray]

"Brothers and Sisters" - If that's how you treat your relatives, don't be surprised when your 'family' disowns you

[neilfrasersmith]

It just shows how effective propaganda is.

[istilius]

They are speaking like a lover who does not accept separation and who says in a disturbing tone: "we will be happy together again".

[hooliator]

Pretty much every person interviewed: "As soon as they stop forcing us to invade them and just submit to our will and give up all rights and hopes to national self-determination everything will be okay!"

[Zakatak-mfiq]

"This war isn't yours"

The absolute detached naivety, arrogance, and apathy of that statement. I mean can you imagine being a Ukrainian who fought for your country at Kyiv, or who helped liberate Kherson hearing that?

[Алена-ьыч]

I live in Crimea, I was born here. And I understand everything that is happening, and that’s why I made the right choice yesterday!..My comment may not be clear to everyone, but let it be in support of the channel.

[haddock]

"Living harmoniously together" = living under russian rule

[iHardcore]

My grandmother has two sisters. One lives in Crimea, the other lives in Nikolaev, the grandmother herself moved to Russia. In 2014, two sisters had to relearn how to communicate like the woman in the video said the rule of the three Ps. In 2022, my grandmother and her sister from Nikolaev had to learn to communicate again... This situation is a little familiar when they say “I don’t recognize these people.”

[cubanchinchilla]

As a one nation? But what if Ukrainians don’t want to be a one nation with Russia? 😂

[fubartotale]

"Change your leadership" as if Ukraine had something to do with Russia invading them.

[eskualranjov]

I'm Ukrainian and my blood is starting to boil while I look how they play victims in war when they have and had choice to stop and we don't have

[steffenbloetner]

It was good to see the diversity of opinion. Thanks for the interviews.

[Flying_Lexus]

Dude at 3:39 is stone cold lol. Let's be friends but first we have to finish the war and enjoy our friendship together as one big Russia lol.

[tatyanatavares]

I am was born speaking Russian and Ukrainian my whole life, just like 50% of Ukrainian population. I am from Kherson. We didn't choose to speak Russian. To everyone, it as a scar of human loss (famines /genocides) and deportations and rusification USSR /Russian Empire expansionism. There was never a single century when Russian empire would not act as an aggressor towards Ukraine. Somehow, Ukrainians healed, adapted by giving up Ukrainian language but not never in their hearts. I have seen all my friends saying how they've cut ties with their close relatives in Russia who rather trust TV, media propaganda of an invisible NATO in Ukraine, nazi, just pretty much any form of Russian Bollywood to justify their political impotence and hidden sense of insecurities. They are still talking in terms of "bother and sister" after mass killings, mass raping, mass tortures, children kidnapping and atter devastation. We live in the information age and it is possible to validate and quality control a lot of information, if one desires. I don't see that Russian masses are ready to question their thinking and feelings. They don't realise that we are all living on the same planet and it is for Ukrainian people to decided which president to select. My wish is for the Russians one day to be able to elect politicians that they like however many generations it will take, until then, Ukraine will have a thick wall along the boarders, weaponised to it's teeth, develop at the cost of frozen Russian assets and ALL Ukrainians will be speaking Ukrainian language as a language of a personal choice. Over 100 years of rusification in Ukraine was just whipped out in one war. Ukrainian men are fighting for the future of their children and grandchildren. They are sacrificing their own lives, as they don't want their children having to go through this hell. Whereas, Russians are fighting to return their past of lost glory - USSR. Question to Russians, with this line of thinking, where do they see themselves in 10 years, 20 years? How many generations will it take in Russia to finally let go of a childish desire to be seen as grand and feared. 🤔 Russians are not only short sighted, they are actually just looking back.

[duncanmiller]

Some of them say unite as one people we are brothers, if I was Ukrainian I’d never have anything to do with Russia ever again.