“So the ball is in your court Vladimir, tell us why a RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN speaking soldier or EXPAT would respond to a reporter speaking RUSSIAN OR UKRANIAN in PERFECT ENGLISH?”
Simple: to be dismissive. When in Italy, if I don’t want anyone to bother me on the street, I respond in German. When I run into street toughs in Germany - especially of the Turkish or Arabic kind - I always use Russian. They are leery of the Russians in Germany because they are all thought to be “connected”. They instantaneously leave you alone.
LOL!,,,,OK, rather than waste the time, I'll give you the argument. The guy captured in the screen shot video, who looked like neither a RUSSIAN OR A UKRANIAN and spoke perfect English was obviously a brown haired caucasian, born and raised in RUSSIA OR THE UKRAINE, and spoke perfect English because he grew up in either Canada or the United States, went to school there and decided to go back to the motherland and join the resistance........
Works for me........LOL!