Before the war Ukrainians were definitely not included in the community of good civilized Aryans. Ukraine was seen as offbrand Russia, full of crime, corruption and every racist stereotype about Slavs you can imagine. If they came into the European walled garden it was to do crime or to take our jobs.

But then the Ukrainian state got themselves into a beef with Russia, one of the Evil Empire's main geopolitical rivals and suddenly Ukrainians have becomed the heroic defenders of western civilization.