This is a wild take. Did you not see the tens of thousands of protestors in the streets? They were in the streets because Russia was trying to keep Ukraine as a "puppet gov."
Their parliament had overwhelmingly voted to join the EU, but the president refused to sign it under pressure from Russia. The Ukrainians who dealt with decades of subjugation and a literal genocide (Holodomor) clearly no longer wanted to be associated with Russia.
The LG V20 had it all, still miss daily driving that phone