You need to stop lying. There is no more Soviet Union. I doubt Ukrainians would rather die. Speak for yourself.
They don’t want to witness a repeat of the Holodomor, or be enslaved by Russia once again The Ukrainian SSR was slave to Russia and it was never envisioned that it would break up*.
*Anatoly Golitsyn has written that the Soviet Union’s demise was controlled, and there are plans to bring it back.