Ukrainian is considered a bastardized and rustic form of Russian. Native Russian speakers don’t bother learning it.
My wife admitted being embarrassed when her grandmother spoke Ukrainian mixed with Russian because it was like being a peasant from a village in eastern Ukraine. She lived in a larger town: Alchevsk. It was the very rural people out on the steppe who still spoke Ukrainian in the DonBass. Of course there would be more ethnic Ukrainians if so many had not been killed or sent to places like Solovki.
Ukrainian is descended from the Czech language not Russian. The Russian spoken today is a low form of the language introduced by the Bolsheviks
Nice. Who gives a shit what Russians think of Ukrainian?
Getting really sick of the Russian/ Putin ass kissing around here.
Considering the Russians enslaved Ukrainians for 300 years, completely suppressed the language and culture, then murdered millions under communism, again, who gives a shit what they think?
Mongoloids usually have problems with other languages as well. Latvian, Lithuanian, English, Chech. Why would Ukrainian be any different ?