Kharkiv is not far from Russian border and is being bombed almost daily. But the more it's being bombed, the more its residents show solidarity and determination to resist to Russian occupation - a large crowd spontaneously sings a patriotic song Oi u luzi chervona kalyna in Ukrainian. Under bombs, life in Kharkiv goes on and nothing is going to break these people. In 2014 Kharkiv was often described as "mostly Russian speaking" and one of the candidates for the covert "Novorossiya" armed coup, but resistance just like this one stopped these attempts. The problem that neither Moscow nor many Westerners understand is that the conflict is not about language at all - speaking Russian doesn't make someone automatically a Putin supporter, even though that's precisely the impression Moscow is building. Quite the opposite, vast majority Russian speaking residents of Kharkiv never wanted to live in Putin's Russia and their main feeling after 2014 was a sense of betrayal from a nation that called them "brotherly". As old saying goes, "no enemy like a friend betrayed".