Did Ukraine's people exist in the 1980s when they were part of the Soviet Union? Or did they not exist then?
Russians are now saying they will de-Ukrainize the people.
Russian state website RIA Novosti published an article entitled “What Russia Should Do About Ukraine»
The narrative of “denazification” has been replaced by “de-Ukrainization”: the author of the article openly declares the entire Ukrainian people wrong, promoting the need to destroy Ukrainians and the Ukrainian language and culture through mass repression.