Cut the crap. You are most likely a citizen of an Eastern ex-Soviet country where Russian is not considered a native or second language.
In Central Asian and some Caucasian countries, Russian is actively used as a second, if not first, language. Players still play on the RU servers and not on the ENG servers due to the language barrier.
As a citizen of a former USSR country, I fully agree with you. You are right.
I mean, saying that a lot of players from Russian speaking or Russia-adjacent countries play on RU realms makes sense, but I don’t see how “former USSR” does. Just as you wouldn’t say that a lot of former Czechoslovakian people play on Drak’thul, you’d say Czechs and Slovaks play there.
People will take issue with bringing “former USSR” into things because it carries lot of negative sentiments still in living memory for many, particularly the eastern bloc countries who were not officially, but effectively part of USSR, and some still have Russian speaking minorities today.
Also just as little nitpick, there are no Blizzard servers in Russia. Servers for RU realms are in Amsterdam.
Man, this guy is lying to the whole forums.
NOBODY says things about Ukrainian people speaking it in world chat. World chat is 99.9% Russian on Russian realms and Ukrainian people HAVE to speak it NOT to 1) trigger Russians 2) for Russians (or Russian speakers, who are what? 98% of Russian realms population?) to understand them.
So all of that “issues” is selfmade and this guy just wants to read Ukrainian exactly due to his hatred towards Russian language and Russian community, not the opposite.
Ukranian is close enough to Russian to communicate properly. The vast majority in UA speaks perfect Russian to begin with.
Then to add, the Ukranian player base is not enough to warrent their own localisation.
There also is no version of Scandinavian languages and so on. Because it it bit big enough.
Also it seems you want this due to hate towards the Russian language etc. In typical banderite manner.
Serbs, turks, poles, Greeks, Czechs, Dutch, Romanians, Croatian, Albanians, Bulgarians, the 3 Baltic states also don’t have their own localisation.
Because their community is not big enough to warrent the work for Blizzard. But most of these people speak either English or Russian. And they also can form their own communities within the game.
You just don’t want to play with “muscovites” from what I see.
They have added a Turkish language option to the battle.net account page and Blizzard website. I wouldn’t want to have a Turkish server with all Turkish players. Why would I want that?
I knew many amazing people, I’ve had 2 long-term relationships from this game, and I’ve enjoyed many raids and battlegrounds with the people I have stumbled upon here. Some are still in my life, some are not but they were the people I’ve had fun together. Swedish, Danish, Finnish, British, Spaniards, Baguettes (jk, French fries), Flying Dutch People… Many many great people from different countries. If I were to play in a server with just people, I wouldn’t get to know those great people.
If they harass you or humiliate you because you are talking in Ukranian, report them. You are free to speak your language but my mean is, not the whole server needs to be in that language. If you are really in need of speaking in your language, find a Ukrainian-only guild or create one.
Btw, believe me, I know how rude Russians are treating Ukranians. I lived in both Lugansk and Donetsk, years before the war. Also spent a month there for an IFRC project after the first conflict, years ago. I don’t wanna get into politics but I want to say that there used to be a large Russian community and most of them were always rude to Ukranians. But not all Russians are the same as well as not all Ukrainians are the same.
I don’t think your request is so logical my friend. Hopefully, you will find peace and a solution to your problem.
Your country signed off on the memorandum 30 years ago, a little late to complain about needing to fulfill your side of the agreement now.
Play with the English WoW client. Your English seems more than good enough. Tons of people in Europe play with the English WoW client even though English isn’t their native language.
Other than avoiding Russian war criminals, here are some other benefits of playing with the English client:
I hereby request Estonian localization of the game because it would increase your playerbase by a significant amount and enhance the experience of those players already playing.
Thank you!
edit: I never understood why I cannot join the Russian servers but can do that for the other languages… I would like to do that because of my interest in the language.
It’s more like heavily accented Scottish or Irish English vs Queens English, they sound almost unintelligible to each other, but when you write it down, it turns out to be basically just a dialect with a couple Polish and Belarus loan words. Every Ukrainian speaks Russian anyway, if you scratch the surface, they are just provincial Russians in denial.
Facts. It is just that recent events have made Ukrainians despise the language and there is a shift towards Ukrainian language renovation by implementing brand new words for things etc. A lot of Ukrainians are now also ashamed for their language sounding indistinguishable from Russian to the average foreigner.
Btw, off-topic but a not-so-fun fact: Russians with dual citizenship were drafted with highest priority to go fight against Russian soldiers.
That’s definitely not the impression I get from them. And they often know both. They tell me only around 60% if their vocab is shared, which is about the same as Dutch vs English, that they have 4 more letters, that 4 Russian letters are missing, that they have more tenses and conjugations, and that they’re drifting even further apart over time.
Now, being Danish myself and being able to sort of understand written Dutch with great effort but unable to understand it spoken at all, I suppose you could make the argument that this is a similar case. Maybe Ukrainian is to Russian what Dutch is to English and I went too far when comparing to German, but either way that’s far from making the case that it is a dialect of Russian like what Scottish English is to English. They’re not as different as Gaelic and English though of course.
Until 2022 Russian was still taught in most schools, less so in the Western areas of Ukraine (where the trend to do away with Russian learning started with the 2014 events) but even there most Ukrainians have grown up in a bilingual environment. It is not only about the language in isolation but the history, literature and culture as well with which language proficiency is inherently related.
I will mention also that one of the main incentives to become more proficient in Russian is the desire to consume Russian movies and music without which many Ukrainians, at least until recently, could not imagine their leisure. Or rather, it is not so much about the incentive, but it just happens on its own because of the cultural products (having been?) being popular.
No, Bärndütsch is way better! Also one realm must be in “dialett ticines” 
I mean, we could organize an RP event called “battle of the Röstigraben” 
A prime example of toxic russian and their attitude towards Ukrainians. I’m so glad that I transfered my characters to EU realm, even though I’m from russia myself. Russians are disgusting
Now attention. The uncomfortable truth:
Almost entire Ukrainian population freely understand Russian language. Those who don’t understand, probably don’t playing WOW, because in dying villages somewhere in the forests no good enough internet for gaming.
The source of such unexpected information: my personal experience from living and traveling in Ukraine for 33 years.
The request of separate localization has no practical base, just politics.
This thread is on a thin line and just about to turn into a political debate, instead of a discussion of localization thing.
We might need a moderation here pretty soon.
Please keep politics out of the game. Real life is being destroyed due to politics, a lot of people from all over the world play to escape real life for some hours. With politics in the game even this escape is not possible anymore. Just treat each other as what we are in the game, funny dwarves, noble troll, sweet cows etc 
Not everyone has such possibility, for example, when I play the game, I see in the window how air bomb destroys some village in 10-15km from me, ofc we Ukrainians hate most of Russians because they support actions, which their army does to us
The price of freedom. 
The Russians would stop, but mad vlad keeps begging for more and more support while buying himself personal villas all over the globe.