I have two friends who are ethnic Ukrainians (one supports the operation, the other does not support and does not want to discuss this topic) and another friend has a wife from Donbass, her parents have long been accustomed to living under the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Another friend of mine is an ethnic Tatar. Other friends are Russian. I meet with them, we drink vodka and there is no hatred between us - this is my objective reality.
If your reality is different, you are probably a racist.
But that's just your social bubble, it probably can't reflect whole Russia. I think it's difficult to deny that hatred of Ukrainians isn't a thing.
From my personal experience with Russians - most of them are good people, as long as you don't start to talk about politics with them.
Apparently people in the Donbass do not want to learn their native Russian as a foreign language.
Well, that's one of questions where I don't agree with Ukraine position. I think they had to give regional language status to Russian language. And I think it's one of few questions which can be discussed with Russia. But all these negotiations which happened so far were completely pointless.
The facts of the oppression of the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine are too numerous and documented for your allegation to cancel them - even if you are completely right.
You contradict yourself with this sentence. Big part of Ukrainian population speaks Russian without any issues and at the same time there is oppression of Russian speaking people. Could you show few examples of such discrimination?