[billakay]

Do you mean in Crimea (not Ukraine anymore), where the quality of life is vastly improved after the people got lucky enough to escape their corrupt government? Or in Donbass, where they weren’t so lucky to get a clean break, and have to suffer shelling and attacks by their own government for having the audacity to want a better life?

There is pretty much no honest way to claim that life in Ukraine is better than in Russia. This claim would require an enormous amount of intellectual dishonesty.

[tlozo]

The quality of life has gotten worse for the old people in Crimea. Prices have risen 3 times what they used to be with fewer vacationers showing up spending money each year.

Do you mean in Crimea (not Ukraine anymore), where the quality of life is vastly improved

Are you arguing russia is not corrupt? This claim would require an enormous amount of intellectual dishonesty.

lucky enough to escape their corrupt government

Depends what you are comparing. I know that life in pre-war Donbas was better than on the Russian area right across the border from Donbas.

There is pretty much no honest way to claim that life in Ukraine is better than in Russia.