Setting people against one another based on their native language has been Ukraines internal policy for a long time

This cut is from a 2019 episode of the Servant of the People TV show, in which Zelensky played a school teacher elected president, highlights this incredibly hateful and divisive tactic. The late Irina Farion, who went as far as pissing off the Azov battalion by demanding that their Russianspeaking fighters speak Ukrainian and declaring them to be trash, was a big fan of dividing citizens of Ukraine by their native language. In this cut, the characters quite literally conspire to make Ukrainian people fight over the language issue.