That is an interesting article. I am not sure if that I would characterize their association this way. The Ukraine has been a part of Russia for hundreds of years. The church that Ukrainians traditionally go to is Russian Orthodox.
But yes, many if not most Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis when they invaded in WWII until the Nazis began showing their true colors. So that would tend to support your characterization.
At this point what the Russians want is regime change. They have gotten away with this repeatedly whenever one of their former satellites countries started pushing things in a way that made them feel threatened.
After Biden muddied the waters by saying over a month ago that we would do basically nothing if Russia invaded, it was a foregone conclusion that Russia would invade.
The current regime is demonstrably one of the most corrupt in the world. Soros has claimed himself that he installed their current “president”. It is not worth the huge number of sacrifices and death that have already occurred to save the group of criminals that make up the current Ukranian regime. And risking billions being killed in a nuclear conflict by continuing to poke Putin and push him around is unthinkable. Putin is rumored not to be a well man, yet he still has the ability to launch an all-out strike from the world's largest nuclear arsenal. Biden, his idiotic advisers and our Soros dominated lefty media are playing with real fire, and they should knock it off. The real goal should be to get things back to a stable situation as quickly as possible.
Well said.