That was what I said I found so striking: that whereas we understand that we need to get along with our big neighbour, with whom we sometimes disagree, we poke our finger in Russia's eye and counsel that the Ukrainians should do so at every opportunity. That seems to me to be a contradiction.
Further, though we practise federal accommodation and pluralism, the Ukrainians don't. I pointed to this new education policy. I don't understand how it's imagined that there is going to be reconciliation and reintegration at a time when the insult of banning instruction in your language after grade 4 is visited upon Russian ethnic Ukrainians.