Funny how Ruskies can't post anything current, all out of date and before Russian invasion in 2014. Ukrainians, even ethnic Russians in Ukraine, are rejecting the Russian language as a language of the enemy.
Russian speakers reject the 'language of the enemy' by learning Ukrainian
In Vyshhorod in the suburbs of Kyiv, around 12 women greet each other in the town hall where they have gathered on a Saturday morning. Dora and Roxanna fled Donbas in 2014 after the Donetsk and Luhansk regions were captured by pro-Russian militias armed and financed by Vladimir Putin’s government. Tatiana and Larissa are Russian and have lived in Ukraine for many years. And Olga, a Belorussian national, has lived in Kyiv since 2020.
All Russian speakers, they are here for the same reason: they want to improve their Ukrainian-language skills. Tatiana admitted finding the Ukrainian alphabet difficult. She has been coming to classes for three years and has made some progress. But “In everyday life, I still use Russian,” she said. Wearing a T-shirt in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, Roxanna said that Russian is her mother tongue. “I learned Ukrainian at school in Donetsk, but it’s not my language of choice. No one ever forced us to speak Ukrainian.”
Now public sentiment is further reducing the amount of Russian being spoken. A recent poll from the Ukrainian Institute found that, in 2022, only 16 percent of Ukrainians claimed Russian as their mother tongue compared with 40 percent in 2012. More than half of respondents (51 percent) said that they only spoke Ukrainian in their daily life while 33 percent said they used Ukrainian and Russian interchangeably.
Larissa was born in Russia but has lived in Ukraine for 40 years. “My children speak Ukrainian and it bothers me that I don’t speak it very well,” she said. “At the moment, I feel a little ashamed not to speak Ukrainian in Ukraine. I started taking classes after the invasion on February 24, and I regret not signing up earlier.”
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220530-russian-speakers-in-ukraine-reject-the-language-of-the-enemy-by-learning-ukrainian
Face it..... Learning any language other than your own is so much work that it makes absolutely no sense to be studying DEAD languages (like Ukrainian)...