The “people of Ukraine” are Ukrainians.
They are no more Russian than I am Scot-Irish-Swede.
If that were truly the case, then we wouldn’t be having a civil war. Ukraine was part of Russian for most of the past century, they share common bonds, culture, history, and many, some areas a majority of their population is Russian. This is a civil war that has been going on for something like 20 years. We’ve now stirred it up with NATO and so forth, now funding them as proxies to fight Russia. Instead, like with Trump, real leadership would have helped prevent the war and bloodshed that Biden and company, plus their Never Trump neocons and allies, have relished.