I don't know if you have the same problem in your country, but we have a certain ilk who has never tasted a hot load of Russian propaganda that they didn't have an reflexive instinct to swallow like candy. As long as it's sufficiently anti-US and anti-NATO, and anti-West enough to get their insurrectionist rocks off.
In Finland, they are small minority. People still remember, how Soviet Russia decided to liberate us from the suppression of free market economy, but we didn't agree, and that created some live-ammo bang bang in the border. And of course, in Russian history Finland was the invader. Country on that time 3,5 million population was trying to take Leningrad (nowadays Sankt Petersburg), which had already then more people. We also see Russian demands of Baltic countries back as ridiculous, as they have been much longer under Sweden than Russia. For example Finland was over 600 years part of Sweden and then 108 years as an autonomic grand duchy of Russia before independency. And even Russian city Novgorod has Viking origin, so perhaps Sweden could take it back?
I live nowadays in Bulgaria, Black Sea map, in a valley west from big mountains approximately half way in distance between bases 54-55. Here Russophiles are much more numerous because of historical reasons. In the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, that time tsar Alexander IIs Russia liberated Bulgaria after five centuries of Turkish rule. There were volunteering Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Finns and Poles in Russian army and also Romania, Serbia and Montenegro joined in as Russia’s allies. And many Bulgarians do not want to understand, it's totally different Russia nowadays under tsar Putains rule than it was then, when Emperor Alexander II was in power. He was so famous and liked that even Finns put his statue in the middle of senate square in Helsinki and it is still there. Tsar Putain will never have it.