Right on bro
The post references an article by Putin in 2021. I did not see any links to it.
There is entirely too much babble about what someone said, instead of presenting the exact words whatever someone said.
As to language in Ukraine, this seems to be a very difficult item to get at. I spent some time on the Wiki, which has pre 2022 content, to find what reality is. It’s very difficult. There is a lot of agenda demanding acceptance of the idea that Ukraine’s Ukrainian language is the overwhelming preferred speech. But the Wiki says this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Ukraine — note particularly the last para:
According to research data from the Kyiv National Linguistic University, currently not displayed on its website but preserved, in particular, on ‘accessed.on.Academia.edu’,[11] as of 2009, a somewhat different picture was observed in the use of Ukrainian and Russian languages in everyday communication by Ukrainian citizens.
Gallup Poll results underscore the prevalence of national language use over Russian; when asked in what language they preferred to conduct the Gallup interview, only respondents in the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus overwhelmingly chose Russian. Ukraine and Kazakhstan retain larger Russian populations. In Belarus, where the interethnic differences between the Belarusians and Russians are minimal, Russian is one of the official languages.
Also, earlier in 2008, according to Gallup Institute research, it was found that 83% of Ukrainian citizens chose to fill out (and did fill out) a questionnaire in Russian.[12] The methodology was that the survey was not related to the topic of language, but the questionnaires themselves were in three versions: in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. Thus, a result was achieved that was not related to the national or ideological identification of the respondents, with the results presented in the table above.