Ukraine was part of Russia for over 1,000 years, and Russia has over a million soldiers buried there.
Only in 1991 were they given artificial statehood.
Texans have a language and culture different from Washington.
Kiev had cathedrals when moscow was a swamp.
Please do tell me about this texan “language”. And please do go to kiev and tell ukrainians they are russian. Let me know how that works out for you once you get out of the hospitL. If there us no difference between russians and ukrainians then this talk of ukrainians oppressing russian speakers is bunk because there is no such difference according to you.
What is “artificial statehood”?