"Stop with the disinfo. You are still the minority in the ancestral homeland of one of my grandmothers. Ukraine is closer to Czechosolvakia and Poland, culturally and religiously, than to Russia."
This was what I experienced when I was in Ukraine also, the Ukrainians do not like Russia dominating them. My Ukrainian friends remind me of Poles more than Russians.
This makes me doubtful that an ethnic Russian would win an election in the Ukraine.