Do you hate Russia, or do you hate Putin? That’s the central question behind a current debate about whether to suspend tourist visas to the EU for all Russian citizens.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky started the ball rolling last week in an interview with the Washington Post, where he said that the ‘most important sanction’ that the EU could impose on Russia was to ‘close the borders, because the Russians are taking away someone else’s land’.