I know both peoples also. The Russians I know have no desire to take over the Ukraine and the Ukrainians have no desire to be taken over by Russia.
So that gets back to my original question, why are you so insistent that the Ukraine give up their sovereignty to Russia and your demand that their president surrender himself to Putin unless of course that you apparently a Putin apologist..............
I don’t care about Putin, I don’t care about any of it except I don’t want to be in it.