I am not sure how ethnic Russians of Ukraine view Ukrainians there , I mean there is a huge fall out between who is an ethnically pure Ukrainian or a Russian. These Donbassians , Odessa people all have Ukrainian roots but they claim to be more Russian or have affinity towards Russian language. Whereas those who proclaim they are Ukrainian in today’s context it explicitly means they have pro western banderite position.
So when Russian speakers say something like you don’t understand the pain of jews or POWs , they are talking about ideological Ukrainians not the ethnically ones , there are also ethnic Russians who have attested their faith towards Bandera in Ukraine too.
I understood this when I interacted with an Ukrainian man from Russia who was born and brought up in USSR. He explicitly stated people like him will be butchered straight way in current Ukraine.
I am not sure how ethnic Russians of Ukraine view Ukrainians there , I mean there is a huge fall out between who is an ethnically pure Ukrainian or a Russian. These Donbassians , Odessa people all have Ukrainian roots but they claim to be more Russian or have affinity towards Russian language. Whereas those who proclaim they are Ukrainian in today’s context it explicitly means they have pro western banderite position.
So when Russian speakers say something like you don’t understand the pain of jews or POWs , they are talking about ideological Ukrainians not the ethnically ones , there are also ethnic Russians who have attested their faith towards Bandera in Ukraine too.
Yeah exactly. Not everyone who was traditionally part of the Ukrainian state was of the same nation.
I understood this when I interacted with an Ukrainian man from Russia who was born and brought up in USSR. He explicitly stated people like him will be butchered straight way in current Ukraine.