Actual tearjerker, made me cry like a bitch while writing. I originally went into this thinking ohohoh I'm gonna write a coomer story but oh man it didn't turn out that way at all.
Russia's economy has been sanctioned to death and back, and it is only a matter of time until the emergency measures holding it up collapse. The massive losses of the offensive war Russia engaged in were slowly simmering into the hearts of the Russian people. Russia-chan was going to die, and the only one to comfort her in her last moments was her enemy, Ukraine-chan.