This chapter follows the imaginative labor through which Russian combatants remake Ukraine into a figure shaped by desire, fear, and inherited grievance. Ukraine emerges not as a neighboring state but as a volatile feminine silhouette: seductive or corrupted, stolen by outsiders or drawn into treachery. In these visions, the intimacy of shared history collapses into a fantasy of betrayal, where what is closest becomes most threatening. Ukrainians appear as unstable doubles—at once familiar and estranged—whose perceived fall must be confronted, corrected, or erased for Russia to regain itself. The chapter traces how notions of possession, loss, and violated kinship intermingle with conspiratorial thinking, producing an enemy that feels both intimate and unreal. In this imagined landscape, hostility is charged with longing, domination is framed as rescue, and violence acquires the shape of moral repair. The enemy is crafted in imagination long before encountered in battle.