

Possibly, but it’s also what Russia call the country in order to describe it as a region of Russia rather than a country and Ukraine finds it offensive, the Ukrainian embassies have requested it not be used.
Combined with this person referring to the parts of Ukraine currently under occupation I suspect they’re using the offensive form on purpose.
Nobody really does physical banking any more so the banks are closing their physical branches. There’s a lot of backlash because a few people can’t use online banking, it’s difficult because the numbers are small and it’s hard to justify staffing a full building when 5 customers turn up each day.
It’s not brexit related.