Couple of years ago, before this war....I was reading a demographic breakdown of the Ukraine. More than 30 different minorities in the country, and some date back to 2,000 years ago. To say that the nation is just ethnic Ukrainian and ethnic Russian...is not correct.
How they’ve managed to survive as a nation the size of Texas and this divided, is pretty much a miracle in itself.
Well, they are a nation, however the minorities are either small communities of neighbouring nations such as Poles, hungarians etc or small communities like Pontic Greeks or Crimean tatars.
But sak those “minorities” (how long part of Ukrain??) if they think of their “culture” as Ukrainian or Russian and my guess is most will say at least NOT “Russian”.