“Death to Muscovites!”: Perceptions of Russian Civilians in Wartime Kyiv
Journal: Journal of Science Humanities and Arts - JOSHA
Year: 2025

This thesis investigates how Ukrainian civilians define the "enemy" within the everyday Russian civilian sphere in the wake of the 2022 full-scale invasion.Ukrainian political rhetoric has often portrayed the Russian public as a homogenous collective complicit in the invasion, frequently making statements to the effect that "there are no good Russians".Drawing on interviews conducted in Kyiv in the spring of 2025, my research sets out to assess whether this image of Russian civilians as a "total