[Toddsterpatriot]

Ukrainian men are fleeing by thousands to Russia from mobilization. Russian migration service established special rule for Ukrainians, they can stay in Russia for more than 90 days.

I have a great idea.

Why don't the Russians living in Ukraine migrate to Russia? Then the fighting would stop and the Ukrainians can stay in Ukraine.

Besides, this war makes it harder for Putin to loot more billions from Russia.

What do you think of my idea, comrades?

[Cossak]

Ukraine was created by Lenin in 1922 of Russian Empire territories populated by several ethnicities - Russians, Little Russians, Jews, Poles, Romanians, Bulgarians, Greeks, etc. Russians were living in those regions for centuries, why they must migrate and not anybody else?

[Cronos]

Why don't the Russians living in Ukraine migrate to Russia? Then the fighting would stop and the Ukrainians can stay in Ukraine.

Because the difference between Russians and Ukrainians is very loose and it becomes non-existent in the east. It's like, somewhat the difference between the French in France and those in Geneva canton

In fact, in the east, they won't call themselves "Russians" but they'll speak Russian only and won't know "Ukrainian" -- which itself is a language continuum rather than a truly defined language (I know, I know you can argue it is a defined, but this is really recent and hasn't "set" in the same way as say Russian or Romanian etc)

"why don't the Russian-speaking Ukrainians migrate to Russia?" well they will say that they are really part of this land. you must understand that most Ukrainians don't have this idea of a nation, more of a sense of "we are from here" -- they've not had the chance to develop the deeper sense of culture