No the real problem is that Ukraine was never actually a place, not with borders resembling the borders created by Stalin when a large piece of Poland was stolen from Poland. Much of so-called Ukraine has been part of Russia since Catherine the Great. Some of it was part of Russia before Russia was part of Russia. Modern Ukraine was an administrative district of the Soviet Union.
“Modern Ukraine was an administrative district of the Soviet Union.”
Swiiiing, and a miss!!!
“The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR or UkSSR; Ukrainian: Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, romanized: Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika, abbreviated УРСР, URSR; Russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика, УССР), also known as Soviet Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from the Union’s inception in 1922 until its breakup in 1991.[11]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic
“Another right that was granted but never used until 1991 was the right of the Soviet republics to secede from the union,[1] which was codified in each of the Soviet constitutions. Accordingly, Article 69 of the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR stated: “The Ukrainian SSR retains the right to willfully secede from the USSR.”[2] However, a republic’s theoretical secession from the union was virtually impossible and unrealistic in many ways prior to Gorbachev’s perestroika reforms.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_the_United_Nations