I think you're high on Fetanyl.
Ukraine is a totally created country. Like Belgium.
It is as much as part of Russia as Texas is to the U.S. when it was briefly under Mexico & then liberated.
But Belgium is the direct descendant of what once was the Spanish Netherlands. This old entity absolutely had an ethnic consciousness at the time, and still does. You chose a bad example.
“Ukraine is a totally created country. Like Belgium.”
Belgium fought for its independence in 1830 from the Netherlands.