In law's In law's are Ukrainian. The dad is a nuclear engineer and is a pretty big time euro Nuke power consultant to the UN and stuff.
Anyhoo, we were all together a year or so after Crimea was annexed. Viktor said that Ukranians didn't really care because Crimea was basically the russian Oligarch/crime lord money laundering vacay spot. Likened it to Vegas of the 60's/70's and the US Mob or Cuba and the mob in the 40's, 50's. Said they could have it.