A notable rise in the number of russians searching for “Ukrainian anthem” on Google, with the Kursk region leading the way. And also the rising trend of Google queries “Ukrainian language self-study” (+250% popularity) and “learn Ukrainian” (+150–300% rise) in cities near the border with Ukraine.

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1. Lmao

2. Hilarious, good that they want to adjust to their new country though.

3. russians really dont care who their master is

4. I hope it’s 4mil+ ethnical Ukrainians who finally started to feel back their roots

5. OMG that’s hilarious

6. It shows that some of the Russian locals are scared the Ukrainians will do revenge attacks on the population. 

   Not much more than that.  

7. Time to assimilate mofos!

8. **Attention: all neighbors of Russia**

   Remember that time Russia or the USSR invaded you? Want to reclaim some lost territories?

   NOW is your chance! Russia has never been so weak. Bring 100 guys with guns and take a 1000sqkms or more! It’s all yours!

   Make them sing YOUR anthem for a change!

9. They understand. They’ll have to learn a new anthem, vote on a referendum and become Ukrainians. 😂

10. So what is their strategy? Singing the Ukranian anthem to prevent to get killed? WTF!

11. That was funny

12. Wtf russians 😭 like, you gonna get your land back, am sure ! Ukraine will trade it for their own occupied land !

13. lol this feels like a “Hello fellow Kids” Moment. but instead it’s “Hello Fellow Ukrainians”

14. Ruzzians are just mental man …

15. Say what you want about comrade Ivan, atleast they’re flexible lol

    🇺🇦

16. Vlad’s gonna loooove this

17. I wonder if Putin is yelling *”Inconceivable!”* from inside his bunker.

18. Gotta adjust to their new lord, like fucking peasants

19. A welcoming committee awaits

20. Dreams of an Irishman

21. As a tech guy I love this.

22. Most Russified people in that region are ethnic Ukrainians who had to deliberately hide their identity from the days of Stalin.

23. 😁🫠🤣😆

24. While this could be ukranian soldiers in the kursk oblast, I choose to believe it is citizens being prepared for the kursk referendum

25. Google will be blocked on the territory of Russian Federation in 3, 2, 1…

26. they are awaiting their new overlords. classical russian move

27. The mind boggles will ..Zelensky order the burning of Ruzzain books and make them speak Ukrainian, which is Kursk and Belgrod’s mother tongue.

    Slava Ukraini

28. Nice.

    🎶😃🇺🇦

29. What a quasi random turn of events, Russians wanting to become Ukrainian, because Russia sucks. Who would have guessed this happening in 2024

30. It’s not an invasion, it’s liberation.

31. They better learn how to say “I apologize for the hospitals being bombed and the rapes” too.

32. ha ha ha… i studied a little russian by myself but the past few years i wish i had started with ukrainian. the alphabet and pronunciation are pretty similar, and most ukrainians can understand russian to begin with any way… i should probably learn how to say “please forgive for speaking the language of the invader. please to not take offense. Слава Україні!”

33. Serfs don’t know any better.

    RuSSia is a country full of serfs, bowing down to any czar or ruler.

34. God I hope this is true

35. Duo Lingo stock going like 📈

36. Damn, this is potentially very telling. The FSB is going to do everything they can to hide this info.