In our local village hotel, just a little north of Munich, we had a Ukrainian family from Kiev staying. As of last week they've packed up and gone home to Kiev.
If Russia is set to finally prevail in Ukraine they've not convinced everyone.
That things are not going Russia's way is clear enough to those not mainlining Kremlin propaganda.
The one thing Russia has in it's favour is the country's huge supply of natural wealth.
Putin, or whoever replaces him will not starve, but if Europe does succeeed in getting off Russian oil and gas Russia will then need to work out a pretty swift accomodation with another customer and the main candidate there is China.
And, after the events of recent weeks, I rather fancy that Russia is going to turn out to be very much the junior partner of that new relationship.