Well, in Poland they weren't, until now... and Ukraine is even worse. Imagine your country treats you as a piece of meat to defend rich that always escape.
In fact, they do not defend only the rich, they do defend the poor who otherwise are going to be: rocketed, bombed, raped, hammered and so on. The present Russian cruelty is obvious (of course there are cruel soldiers in every army but the Russian problem is from the top to the bottom)... so, as I mentioned, what is the other choice? To surrender and to become a part of Russia or to be separated between Russia and Poland (I know there are still those Polish ultra-nationalists who want to take some Ukrainian lands back), or to become a puppet state (semi-colony) of Russia? Most of the Ukrainians want to be a part of the EU, so it's not in their interest to accept the Russians.
And about that -- I said it before in a Bulgarian post: "
During the wars, the biggest and the most pity victims are the poor people! The rich ones, usually, are able to avoid it."
I do think so because I am a person with socialistic values (I like the
Fabianism -- "
whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism via gradualist and reformist effort in democracies, rather than by revolutionary overthrow.") So, I am a pacifist too.
100% anti-war oriented!!!