Ukrainians: about Eastern and Western Ukraine | Street Interview 

Which Slavic languages are hardest for you to understand and which are easiest and why?

какие красивые русские девочки, жаль они еще думают, что живут в какой-то там украине, а по факту живут в сепаратистском регионе Российской Федерации

Ukraine is not a country, it is a region between Russia nad EU.

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"Will Ukraine be prepared, when it enters the EU, to assimilate its liberal humanist principles and values and contribute decisively to its dissemination as a society and culture in its geographical space?" I would like this question to be asked to understand how committed Ukrainian citizens are to accepting EU membership. The EU is definitely with Ukraine, as we see a culture of work, integrity and above all honesty that complements the multiculturality European space. SLAVA UKRAINE💛💙

So true! My first thought was that culturally there’s a difference between city people and country people here in Australia. Country people are more conservative, progressives live in the cities. They bitch about each other but no one thinks of joining a neighbouring country. Of course it’s all water so it would be awkward. I wish for a United and independent Ukraine, a valued member of the western democratic world. I wish the western democratic world would get its act together and industrialise its weapons industries and get this war over with. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇦🇺

Yeah only difference is that the homeland for the Eastern Ukrainians is Russia.

No matter whether Lithuanian, Estonian, Latvian you are, you all have one homeland, that would be Ireland, I guess

latvia sounds like paradise

@@SeminarioMAE Latvia’s population is 30% smaller than it was in 1990.

Quebec is always on the knifes edge of succession. The prairie provinces headed that way.

If Ottawa bun French - Quebecers would take rifles.......State of Alaska has 21 official languages - but the Western Ukrainians demand all should use Ukrainian mova.... this is the HUGE difference - In Crimea Ukrainian is an official language!!!!

Yes, the US Civil War is a great example. You might want to look at English history too.

northern canadians are nice

​@@valerijoukov239Why shouldn't Ukrainian be an official language of Crimea, seeing as Crimea is officially Ukrainian?

Интересно совершенно разных людей сравнивать

True! People in Czechia (EU) are more similar to Ukraine than to Portugal (EU)! People in Belgium (NATO) are more similar to Israel than Turkey (NATO).People in Germany (Axis) are more similar to people in Russia than Japan (Axis). Life is so diverse! Let's make more divisions to facilitate more conflicts and wars! )))

And yet war between Russians and Ukrainians, two slavic nationalities, More similar than them. So you can conclude what went wrong with them. You can live in peace even though you are not the same.

@@StrongRespect actually, we are ALL the same. All humans derived from the same parents. So, the greater family relations don't matter when it comes to wars and unions. Apparently, some other considerations are at play

@@NTraveller yes and what are those in Ukraine?

Dude, take a pill. Your leader is a warcrime dictator, your country has a fatal ethnic problem, which not reliable to solve.

​@@user-ov8uo9fy1vonly dictatorship country is Russia with a ruler that's ruling for 23 years.

Yeah, I think this question hit a raw nerve with the handlers of the Savushkina disinformation maggots. Remember: they're sitting in comfortable offices in Petrograd. If they don't churn out enough disinformation they go straight to the killing fields of Ukraine as cannon fodder and become sunflower seed fertiliser after a couple of weeks. Can't imagine what that sort of pressure does to your mind.

What are you even talking about

​@@solarsystempresidentHe's refering to a speach by the previous president of Ukraine.

It's Ukrainian Maidan-president Poroshenko on children of Donbass region. Speech delivered in Odessa, 27.10.2014.

@@user-uk5qe1xn8h I've never once seen that quoted in context, so I always take it with a pinch of salt whenever it comes up. I also wouldn't refer to Poroshekno as the "Maidan-president" of Ukraine, since he was elected after putin-puppet Yanukovych fled the country as a result of the Revolution of Dignity. Poroshenko didn't orchestrate the protests - no one person or entity did.

@@1midnightfish How "their kids will sit in the basements" can be quoted out of context? Why would children in Donbas sit in basements if not taking cover from Ukrainian bombings? That's literality what Ukraine has been doing for almost 10 years already, bombing Donbass and murdering people that are living there. Yanukovych didn't just fled, he was running for his life after Maidan mob had threatened to murder him. Both Maidan coups 2004 and 2014 were financed and organized by Usa government.

You didn’t watch Ukrainian television or music ? You didn’t learn in school? You can’t transition? You are proud to speak Russian ? I would be ashamed

I am Australian. If England attacked Australia I would revert to Australian dialect to differentiate from English English

@@buddyrojek9417 Much easier to switch dialects than languages, but i love diversity and in democratic Ukraine according to our constitution it guarantees the free development, use and protection of Russian and other languages of national minorities. We are here we exist and we will continue to speak and use the languages that our grandfathers paid in blood so that we could freely speak it.

You are a man who dont sell the blood from his Grandfathers,when i see Ukrainian Frontfighters 90 percent speak Russian , so its not a Problem you can speak Russian , without you the Westukrainians would lost the war long time ago.

​@@buddyrojek9417what when they in most of Australia would speak a english Dialekt then this would be not so easy why sell your heritige?

it was interesting speech while you not starting counting "ethnic groups" which were total fail. Zaporizhian Cossacks is the most funniest of them :)

@VitaliiThe amended it to be slightly more accurate.... by the way, were you aware of the completely disproportionate numbers of Russian ethnic minorities being sent to die in Ukraine?

There is no such ethnic group like cossacks or carpathians, but yes, we are all Ukrainians

@EugeneRudyy not just ethnic but cultural identities... Cossacks are a recognised group with a distinctive culture... and same for Hutsuls in the Carpathians.... c'mon , you going to tell me these people dont exist?

Variety? The motto of today's Ukraine is "One nation, one language, one religion." Western Ukrainians forcibly erase the diversity of all other groups. Often physically.

Err no - because those areas are currently occupied by a genocidal invader, led by a dictator who does not even recognise a sovereign and independent Ukraine. This madman has now illegally annexed these oblasts under Russia. Are you stupid? Lets not forget how he treats those murderers who led the separatist movement that he supported with weapons in the Donbas.... remind me, where is the murderer and terrorist Strelkov aka Igor Girkin now sitting again?

Err no - because those areas are currently occupied by a genocidal invader, led by a dictator who does not even recognise a sovereign and independent Ukraine. This madman has now illegally annexed these oblasts under Russia. Are you stupid? Lets not forget how he treats those murderers who led the separatist movement that he supported with weapons in the Donbas.... remind me, where is the murderer and terrorist Strelkov aka Igor Girkin now sitting again?

There is no any Eastern Ukraine it's ruzzin BS propaganda created decades ago to separate people, massively used during Yanukovich cadence

Many didn't survive the Union building fire in Odessa to comment.

Brian, you can ask them to interview Zelenskiy, he's from Donbas 😊

You've clearly not been to Ukraine otherwise you would know that in the South and East a different language is spoken. I am Ukrainian from Khrakov and i speak Russian just like my grandfathers before me. So no the difference is not less.

@@Papagulag I've been married to a native Russian speaking Ukrainian for 25 years. I've been to Kherson, Kyiv, Odessa, Hola Prystan, Mykoliave and Sevastopol about a dozen times. I speak neither Ukrainian or Russian. I've also been to Saint Petersburg twice.

@@john_in_phoenix X to doubt otherwise if your wife had contact in Ukraine she would know that tensions between Russian and Ukrainian speakers its highest ever been. What Ukrainian soldiers are doing in Russian speaking cities now is a crime in itself, you can get assaulted spat on, be detained by just speaking Russian. They are only making more collaborators by doing shit like that.

@@john_in_phoenix As we might guess by the name - as well as a number of other comments and replies under this video - Papagulag is a troll. A troll who can't spell Kharkiv (here he actually spelt it as "Khrakov" which is hysterical... it sounds kind of Polish now 🤣)

​@Papagulag stop your Putin propaganda. You're ridiculous. And FYI, the current Ukrainian prwsidrnt is a Russian native 🙄

Yes, its true.

People in Odessa and mostly in Kiev speak Russian. Well at least until 2022.

1) It's hard to claim that the separatist movement was created artificially when it rose out of a reaction to the replacement of their ethnic language, even Russia still allows for multilingual studies for its various republics. It's like if Canada just suddenly forced all institutions in Montreal to only use English. This would of course cause an uproar. 2) Russian TV has been banned and all opposition media, especially Russian language, has also been banned, by Zelenskiy's orders. 3) Yes, this is true about the links with Britain, but this is because the Russian Empire had warm relations with England and France, and the Russian influence over this territory predates the 19th century by a long shot, hence why you have huge ethnic Russian populations living there.

Many of the millions of Ukrainians deliberately starved to death by stalin 90 years ago were in that area, and were then replaced by russian speakers. Having said that, we really should move away from equating russian-speaking Ukrainians with people who buy into kremlin propaganda, because many Ukrainians who grew up speaking mostly russian very firmly identify as Ukrainian (including many of the people who've been killed since 24th February 2022).

​​@@1midnightfish Agree. Let's not forget the present Ukrainian president has the Russian native language and his mother side is Russian.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OKeD0YaJwj8.html

Central Ukraine, so it should be Kyiv

Ukrainian, who is it?🤷🏼‍♂️

UKRAINE NEVER HAD ANY HEROES, ALL OF ANIMALS THEY WORSHIP WERE TRAITORS OR FASCISTS

To prawda Wołyń 1943r 11lipca. To bardzo pokazuje wasze wartości.😂

​​@@andrzejkatkowski5790 as if Poles never slaughtered anyone 😂

​@@dotabuff5288 perfect description of Putin Russian

Not quite. Ask them which Oblast the most colaborateurs has, everyone in the East/South would say its his and show a couple personal examples.

all people in Ukraine identify themselves as Ukrainians.

I agree with you . Research Volhynia massacre and ask yourself why it happened in western Ukraine (anyways it was Poland back then )

The original question was "why are the eastern Ukrainians collaborating with the Russian occupiers". If posed like that, I think it would've been difficult for the people interviewed to claim they are all one people. And keep in mind, what's stated in this interview is mot fact. It is not even the opinion of the average Ukrainian. It is the opinions of a group of prople from Kyiv.

@@allydea Ukrainians on the East were havily brainwashed by russian propaganda. And one of the major points of russian propaganda aimed on Ukraine was that Ukrainans on the West and on the East are different. They have bern trying to divide Ukrainians for many years, but they did not succeed. Now people on the East have a lot more reasons to hate Russia. No on on the West hates Russians as much as Eastern Ukrainians.. Ukraine is a solid nation. Only russians deny that..

Только вот теперь украинские беженцы в России хотят забыть, что они были Украинцами, и даже на дух не терпят украинской речи. У моего мужа есть украинские корни, и он хотел "порозмовляти украïнською" с беженцами и переселенцами (а их и у нас на работе много), но те отказываются, говорят, что их тошнит от "мовы" после нацистских зверств bandera's.

@@Olga-de3ru For as many people I have met in villages and cities, I find it extremely unlikely, since you are writing in Russian. Sounds more like troll garbage than anything. I have gone from Crimea, where people call themselves Ukrainian and not Russian to villages in far southern Ukraine, where they are Ukrainian and want nothing to do with Russia. Just take a look at how your average Russian lives compared to you average Ukrainian. I have been to Russian many years ago and see the toilets outside, no clothes washer, heating is nothing but a wood burning fireplace. I could keep going about the differences of the average Russian vs the average Ukrainian. Moscow is what Russians think Russia is, but sadly outside Moscow Russia is like any other 3rd world country, If these "Ukrainian loving Russia" had many year to pack their stuff and move. Why didn't they?

@@bryanohlsson4689 Oh, a standard sketch of consciousness littered with the Western goebbels-machine. The whole set of miserable anti-Russian lies. I did not touch on the issue of living standards, it was only about Bandera's atrocities, after which Ukrainian refugees who took refuge in Russia fell out of love with the Ukrainian language, which is distressing for my husband, who has Ukrainian roots: he hoped to talk to them in Ukrainian, but they refuse. We have several people at work - refugees and displaced persons from Ukraine. A lot of families (including our son-in-law) have Ukrainian relatives (and even more acquaintances), and even more so in Crimea - will you tell fakes about Crimea to me?? That's why you started talking about "trolling" - a projection technique familiar to anti-Russian "speakers". In Russia, I note, there are about 3 million refugees from Ukraine, thousands and thousands - in my Voronezh, Ukrainian children have been given shelter (the EU gives Ukrainian children to pedophiles and transplantology(

@@bryanohlsson4689 Russian villages actually (what I see around me in the Voronezh region, but this is an average area): (one moment, I find proofs) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ILVrJJYMBm8.htmlsi=LnlYgd35vRMgj4Jz

@@bryanohlsson4689 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8lbR84Bpfqs.htmlsi=9csesq7-KCaIXk6k

Московія - терористична країна з тоталітарною формою правління🤷‍♂️

Total ruzzian BS and propaganda that used old methodology about how "west Ukraine" don't like "east Ukraine". Usual BS propaganda used since Yanukovich times

15 rubles for your comment!

​@@user-ij1oi7cw3uA $hekel for the good goy.

West Ukraine speaks its own dialect which is slightly different from the standart, but that's not a full mix with polish.

"город is the russian name for "city"" Wrong, город is an old term for fortified settlement, and russian equivalent is град actually. Also name Ужгород was put in use back in Czechoslovakia. And hungarians robbed Czechoslovakia to begin with, so they have no rights to complain ar Stalin. It's not up to foreigners to decide someone's else political administration. Especially when Ukraine is monoethnical country with one ethnicity being a majority in all 24 oblasts.

@@ayararesara6253 yes I know the etymology, ie. the history of the word город and град .And these words are from scandinavian garðr ie. gaard in modern danish or gård in modern norwegian and swedish. You read the Sagas and see the mention of Gardarike for Russia ie. the kingdom of the "gård"(er). gård->gorod. And etymology aside город and град do actually mean "city" nowadays. In russian you say город for city. Exple: В каком городе вы живете? In case you didn't get, I reminded of this because the word used in ukrainian/galician is a Polish word: miesta/miesto. Hence the irony ffor instance of the name of the city by the river Uzh: Uzhgorod in that context

@@minutte There's no irony, it's just an old lexic. Today "город" in ukrainian is literally a garden for vegetables, but no one has such assosiations and everyone understand what real etymology is. So you need to be uneducated to laugh at Uzhgorod and not at "Uzhmisto".

No, he is a transformer.

No, he's from Western Ukraine, they speak xtrafast unlike other parts of Ukraine

Tatars yes, hutsuls not necessary… and there are no cossacks as ethnic self-identification in Ukraine.

You do not see such issues in France, Canada or Brazil? I think you have not travelled enough perhaps.

You don't travelling enough if you even not see it in France, how about Bretons at least? Ukraine is the biggest country in Europe which fully located in Europe, how you imagine that there is no differences in that case in diff regions? One region in Ukraine like some full countries in Europe

@@VitaliiThe I grew up in Italy and have lived in the UK most of my life. Neither of these countries is homogenous by any stretch of the imagination. And thank goodness for that

Позволь мне понять... Наоборот, ты хочешь сказать, что в России население однородно? С 20% мусульманами и 20% китайцами? Ты уверен, что ваша "федерация" не исчезнет? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@slobodailismrt_ я не про однородность населения, а про разность мировозрений, стремлений, идеалов и всего прочего, что формирует страну (не путайте с государством) и народ. В России, несмотря на многонациональность и многорелигиозность, устремления людей едины - эгрегор един. Никаких шансов на развал России, даже можете не мечтать.

@@slobodailismrt_ Точно! Думаю, наша знакомая из Савушкиной ошиблась: она имела в виду, что Российская Федерация расколется на сто частей в действительно очень жестокой гражданской войне, которая приближается к этому самодержавию. Не могу сказать, что мне особенно жаль! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@MikeRodent-wp6ci дурак думкой богатеет

​@@user-bn1ov3je5k Ukrainians disagree 😊 And don't forget Zelenskiy is a Russian native speaker from Donbas 😊

Какие западенцы? Нет единых "западенцев" ты про Галычан говоришь? Или про Волынян? может Закарпатцев? Буковинцов, или Гуцулов? Лемки или Бойки? Западная это может быть как и Львов и Ужгород, и Луцк с Ровно, а также Винница с Хмельницким а также Черновцы и т.д и там у каждого разный диалект и менталитет. Потому нет каких то одних единых "западенцев" Закарпатцев с Прикарпатцами разделяют многие столетия нахождения в разных империях и разный диалект и менталитет, как и Волынян с ними же. И все они "Западенцы" которые очень разные.

@@romandiamond2165 Вот именно! Вы только подтверждаете мои слова! Если уж на западе такой "винегрет", так они про восток еще спрашивают :))

А так под "западенцами" обычно понимают галичан прежде всего конечно, из-за того, что они самые "шумные" и фанатичные ксенофобы. Не все конечно 😉

@@AlexanderPozdnyakov так это во всех странах так, регионы отличаются все чём то друг от друга. Это нормально.

Различие в том, что жители Западной Украины более проевропейски и прозпадно настроены, и это хорошо, потому что Запад это гуд. А на Востоке чуток больше процент людей носталтгирующих за вонючий бестолковый ссср, люди, которые ностальгируют за бедностю, безперспективностью, очередями. Но в целом, выбор Украины - ЕС, Нато и это выбор здорового человека

Я живу в сумах можу гайнути у Харків , така я смішна вийшла на відео

Какой текущий режим, то люди и говорят. По крайней мере большинство варьируется в ту или другую сторону. Скажет харьковчанин, что он за Россию, к нему СБУ на завтра придут и предъявят за сепаратизм. Помнится в Крыму какие-то западные журналисты подобный опрос проводили, так их материал даже не выпустили...

😂😂😂😂than why they voted to joinh Russ

​@@Percival5Kiev says those were "fake" votes 🤷‍♂️🤫

@@thf1933 ты путаешь со своим режимом. Это у Мариуполе и Донецке люди молчат. В Украине все говорят абсолютно открыто даже сейчас найди мне хоть одного украинца который бы замалчивал проблемы. К чему это враньё?

Ukraine isn't united because they shelled DPR and LPR. United people don't do that.

😂😂these people are quoting zelensky propaganda, ask yourself why Crimea, donbass etc wanted to join Russia you will get the answer these people talk like this bcz they are front of camera

@@Percival5 Obvious troll is obvious.

Go back to 2014 . They loved each other so much lol

@@Percival5 They didn't want to join russia. Those regions were deliberately destabilised and then occupied, and sham referenda were held at gunpoint.

Как вы относитесь к американцам? - Я к ним хорошо отношусь, но я к ним не отношусь. Я отношусь к европейцам. 😊

Нажаль, українську, навідміну від англійської, забороняли, зпотворювали, принижали багато віків. Тим не менш: обрій, горизонт, небосхил, небокрай, крайнебо і так далі ;)

@@Oleksandr_Kryvenko Можливо, я був незрозумілий. Вибачте, якщо я був. Проте загадковий лінгвістичний приклад, про який я говорив, здається, зустрічається в українській і російській мовах однаково. Я дякую вам за вашу відповідь і бажаю вам всього найкращого. ----------------- Perhaps I was unclear. Sorry if I was. However, the puzzling linguistic example which I was talking about seems to occur in the Ukrainian and Russian languages equally. I thank you for your reply and I wish you the best.

I believe the answer to that is self evident, as is your stupidity.

Probably because journalists aren't able to visit there, especially in the areas controlled by russia / DPR & LPR. Even if they were, I doubt you would be able to get objective answers from anyone.

​@@stephenhawkins555I'm not sure if journalists aren't able to travel there or who would be blocking such travel. Maybe it would be difficult for them to travel back. Luckily, there are plenty of journalists already there, but if you doubt the people can speak freely, then it's as if they don't exist.

@@stephenhawkins555 Probably because most journalists DON'T WANT to be able to visit there. I know several journalists from all over Europe reporting news from Donbass and Crimea. A French journalist was arrested in France while returning from Donbass, another german journalist had his bank account seized without judicial mandate, another italian one had his place searched by police upon return from Ucraina. This happens in "free" world.

​@@salvatoreventaglio3782Can you give the name of these journalists? One country you mentioned is mine.

This is the truth. Ukrainian speakers also covered the southern part of the Voronezh Oblast and also, of course, the whole of the Krasnodar region (east of the Azov Sea). But the Russians for years have tried to suppress their identity and prevent them speaking Ukrainian.

@@MikeRodent-wp6ci The thing is on one hand we have multicultural countries like Switzerland, Russia, Belgium, India where different ethnic minority groups can their own language, religion and representation, and on the other hand we have Ukraine that is a multicultural country as well, but tries to be a homogenous one like, say, Japan even though Ukraine has a lot of ethnic Russians, Hungarians, Poles, Tatars etc. So Ukraine today is practically doing what the Russian Empire was doing 100 years ago (assuming, of course, that what you said is true)…

Are you stupid? Kharkiv region was and still is eastern Ukraine.

Slaba Ukraine.

Бандера придет, порядок наведёт.

​@@sudfacI think you'll go to Bandera first 😂😂

@@Marjan986 No, because it was sarcasm.

Because your tsar is a compulsive l**r with psy****tric problems, and he appears to have successfully trained you to emulate him. In 2019 there were indeed now-banned Ukrainian political parties. But it is a wild exaggeration to claim that 26% of the 2019 electorate voted for those now banned parties.

Maybe you should NOT common as yours is 💩💩💩. Ukraine isn't Russia where people follow a criminal like sheep.

Wrong, that's nothing close to Zelenskyi's declared views. "why those parties are now banned" Are you imbecile? Because Russia escalated war, so pro-russian parties are collaborationist pro-enemy. It was a very generously to allow them to operate until 2022 to begin with; though to be fair only one was somewhat relevant.

Yep. I read a huge book about the history of Ukraine (700 pp) a few months ago. So different and so much more complex than my country's history (UK). Ukrainians have more entitlement to the term "Rus". Mockba and Petersgrad were both freezing swamps when Kyiv had been a centre of civilisation for centuries.

@@mikerodent3164 What book you’re reading Ukrainian version, which whole bunch of lies and made up stuff???? Like Bandera hero of Ukraine that’s kind of bullshit ???

This is impossible because the Russians have had a slave mentality since the beginning of their Moscow state, which was basically created by the conquest of territories and local nations by Asian hordes. There has never been a single free generation in Russia, there has always been a ruthless despot: the tsar, the party secretary, or now the dictator-president. These people cannot live in peace with their neighbors and their federation must live by exploiting others.

⁠@@mikerodent3164So much more complex than UK? I wonder which book did you read. About Adam and Eva being Ukranians or how they excavated the black sea? You will struggle to name 1 Ukrainian leader from Middle Ages.

Это все сделали сша

😂😂😂😂 of course lol tell that to residents of Mariupol, Donieck and Lugansk

​@@gabrielbakalarz5722they're temporarily occupied and destroyed by the russians invaders

​@@gabrielbakalarz5722ofc. Population is already relocated by Russians after invasion.

Die leute aus mariopol ????haben das schlimmste Massaker seiten der Russen erlebt🎉die meisten sind Tod oder vertrieben fragen sie die mal die überlebten wie sie zu den Russen stehen😮aber sie dürfen ihren Mund ja nicht aufmachen 😢

These statistics are a big lie.

Poles were killed with the slogan “glory to Ukraine". Did you hear the Volyn massacre? Glory to Ukraine?

​@@BibEvgendude, you didnt see his canada and Ukraine flags? It may be Hunka himself.

@@AaSs-ln9mm I get it, you don't care about the Poles. Well, that's right, because Poles also don't care about the events of the Volyn crimes.

Героям слава! Смерть путінським тролям! ❤🖤

@@BibEvgen Anyone remotely tempted to give this troll the benefit of the doubt, look up Timothy Snyder's lecture series The Making Of Modern Ukraine, find the relevant lectures in the series, and listen to those instead.

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There were elections in controlled territory in 2014, 2019, etc. Russian has never been an official language.

@ayararesara6253 get your facts straight. Look up the demographics on Wikipedia and you’ll see that the majority of eastern Ukraine has Russian as their maternal language. How does it make sense not having it as an official language? And no, eastern Ukraine wasn’t able to vote in national elections. And btw what happened to this years elections…? But yeahhh right, Selensky is fighting for democracy… sure…

@@adamcrapple6089 I don't see russian being an official langauge of Estonia, despite them being bigger percentage there. Crimea had autonomy and three regional languages, due to ethnic composition. Eastern regions are still majority ukrainian by ethnicity. >eastern Ukraine wasn’t able to vote in national elections It was. What are you talking about? Everything under control participated in it. and also refugees. >what happened to this years elections Martial law.

no they are not one people - unless you consider Portuguese and Spanish one people also?

Хорошо что ты, эксперт, не сказал что все говорят с польским акцентом :D

@@VitaliiThe точно не с польским. Но с ошибками почти каждый. Я знаю, со мной в детстве говорили на украинском.

@@Coconautify I didn’t mean that Portuguese and Spanish were one people. But Russians in Russia and the Ukraine speak the same language.

@@sahargubel2396 знаток, в детстве с ним говорили :) главный факт что люди знают украинский, и пытаются на нем говорить, а не на русском. Жаль что ты не в курсах что такая тенденция уже много лет.

No religion has been banned in Ukraine: Ukrainians are trying to shake off the muscovite church - which is basically a branch of the FSB - and that's a very different thing. And no one is prevented from speaking russian in the day-to-day lives, but Ukrainian is the state language and must be used by anyone providing service. The russian language has been heavily weaponised by putin's regime and used to justify a genocide, so no wonder people have lost their patience with it. Besides, many Ukrainians have been directly traumatised by people speaking russian, and it's understandable that they don't want to hear it. There are Ukranians who've escaped the temporarily occupied areas who now refuse to speak russian, even though it's their native language and they're not yet as fluent in Ukrainian. I know this for a fact, I have met them.

There is a *BIG DIFFERENCE* between _"stories/propaganda/cynical outright lies"_ in Western internet/media and *FACTS PROVEN IN COURT.* 👉 An interesting fact - as of 2023, at least 95% of Ukrainians (and 99.99% of Westerners) deny the fact that the *NUMEROUS UKRAINIAN MILITARY FOR MANY MONTHS (ALMOST A YEAR!) TORTURED, KILLED AND RAPED the local civilian population* _(including underage girls)_ *IN THE BUILDING OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL(!!!)* and that was proven in court which these same Ukrainians recognize! 👉 *When the UKRAINIAN MILITARY committed all these crimes, they filmed everything on video. Numerous videos of their own crimes were on their own phones and these phones were with them when they were detained!* They continued this terror of the local population for many months despite the fact that the locals endlessly begged to stop it. Relatives of the victim contacted not only local Ukrainian authorities, but authorities in Ukrainian capital city Kiev as well. From the very beginning, ALL THESE BARBARIC UKRAINIAN CRIMES were well known not only to the local Ukrainian authorities, but also to the authorities in capital city Kiev. *Everyone knew everything and no one stopped it.* Because it was Ukrainian goal to terrorize the local population in order to start civilian war and provoke Russia to intervene. 👉 *If this TERROR and BARBARIC, HEINOUS CRIMES against the civilian population was organized and covered at the highest Ukrainian government level, then what should Ukraine be called?* I will repeat it again. These are not someone's "stories" on the Internet/media. *THESE ARE FACTS PROVEN IN А COURT, IN THE UKRAINIAN COURT!* Moreover, below is the name of the court and the date of a sentencing in this criminal case after the guilty verdict. Everything can be easily verified, as on that day there were only 3 cases in this court and only one of them was with a verdict: - Obolonsky district court of the city of Kiev(Ukraine); - April 7, 2017. 👉 *THE CHANCE IS COMPLETELY CLOSE TO ZERO that main Western media will film a documentary about these barbaric and heinous Ukrainian crimes against local civilians IN THE BUILDING OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL.* Main Western media will not make a film ABOUT CRIMES PROVEN IN THE COURT. Instead, they will film paid propaganda videos about something that is not proven in court and in fact in most cases is outright lies and at least manipulation. P.S. *Nothing has changed in many years. Ukrainian N@Z|S remain Ukrainian N@Z|S.* On March 18, 1944, Ukrainian nationalists committed a massacre of Poles in the village Mogilnitsi. The corpse of 6-month-old Kashtarin Zbeshko with a severed spine was folded in half and thrown into a pit. *It is just one of HUNDREDS of documented and confirmed crimes committed by Ukrainian N@Z|S.*

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Very good point. But this young Ukrainians are brainwashed they think Ukraine is the oldest country in the world

Please read History books instead of listening to this guy who does not even know the differences between people, culture, language, and independent state. Ukraine exists for centuries, although it was not an independent state until the early XXth century for 3 years and then again from 1991.

@@kadovax6567 I have read a lot about history of Ukraine , not Ukrainian books though ! As you just wrote Ukraine is a very recent state ...

ну так а что в этом удивительного. Ни вертепов, ни дидухов на востоке никогда и не было, т.к. это римская традиция, т.е. фактически католическая. И ветками омелы дверь дома под Рождество тоже никогда не вешали, потому что это чужой обычай

@@ololoye чужий для монголів. А от для мене і моїх прадідів це народна традиція

@@heartborne123 ну да, ваша гуцульская локальная традиция, а все остальные украинцы, венгры, русские, румыны, татары на Украине причем? Нахуя эти веники ублюдочные по всей стране расставлять

Так ваш(?) шовинизм это чья проблема?

There is a *BIG DIFFERENCE* between _"stories/propaganda/cynical outright lies"_ in Western internet/media and *FACTS PROVEN IN COURT.* 👉 An interesting fact - as of 2023, at least 95% of Ukrainians (and 99.99% of Westerners) deny the fact that the *NUMEROUS UKRAINIAN MILITARY FOR MANY MONTHS (ALMOST A YEAR!) TORTURED, KILLED AND RAPED the local civilian population* _(including underage girls)_ *IN THE BUILDING OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL(!!!)* and that was proven in court which these same Ukrainians recognize! 👉 *When the UKRAINIAN MILITARY committed all these crimes, they filmed everything on video. Numerous videos of their own crimes were on their own phones and these phones were with them when they were detained!* They continued this terror of the local population for many months despite the fact that the locals endlessly begged to stop it. Relatives of the victim contacted not only local Ukrainian authorities, but authorities in Ukrainian capital city Kiev as well. From the very beginning, ALL THESE BARBARIC UKRAINIAN CRIMES were well known not only to the local Ukrainian authorities, but also to the authorities in capital city Kiev. *Everyone knew everything and no one stopped it.* Because it was Ukrainian goal to terrorize the local population in order to start civilian war and provoke Russia to intervene. 👉 *If this TERROR and BARBARIC, HEINOUS CRIMES against the civilian population was organized and covered at the highest Ukrainian government level, then what should Ukraine be called?* I will repeat it again. These are not someone's "stories" on the Internet/media. *THESE ARE FACTS PROVEN IN А COURT, IN THE UKRAINIAN COURT!* Moreover, below is the name of the court and the date of a sentencing in this criminal case after the guilty verdict. Everything can be easily verified, as on that day there were only 3 cases in this court and only one of them was with a verdict: - Obolonsky district court of the city of Kiev(Ukraine); - April 7, 2017. 👉 *THE CHANCE IS COMPLETELY CLOSE TO ZERO that main Western media will film a documentary about these barbaric and heinous Ukrainian crimes against local civilians IN THE BUILDING OF THE LOCAL SCHOOL.* Main Western media will not make a film ABOUT CRIMES PROVEN IN THE COURT. Instead, they will film paid propaganda videos about something that is not proven in court and in fact in most cases is outright lies and at least manipulation. P.S. *Nothing has changed in many years. Ukrainian N@Z|S remain Ukrainian N@Z|S.* On March 18, 1944, Ukrainian nationalists committed a massacre of Poles in the village Mogilnitsi. The corpse of 6-month-old Kashtarin Zbeshko with a severed spine was folded in half and thrown into a pit. *It is just one of HUNDREDS of documented and confirmed crimes committed by Ukrainian N@Z|S.*

​@FirstNameLastName-ov3cw, please give a link. Otherwise, you sound like putin propagandist. BTW they can send their videos to the international court.

russia is not Ukraine's "brother" and what most Ukrainians actually want is for russian occupiers to go back home and leave them the hell alone. If you want the war to stop go tell putin

Tell that to the people of Mariupol who were Russian native.

@@kadovax6567 tell to ukrain people from East... they know nazist azov..... do you know ????

Are you stupid? It's Russia who betrayed and created animosity

Maybe that was the feeling once, but I doubt it very much anymore.... maybe you should explain that to relatives of the family of 9 murdered in their sleep by two Russian soldiers in Donetsk, or the family of the young boy murdered in cold blood in the occupied part of Kherson. I believe Russia has successfully destroyed any fraternal feelings that might of once existed for the vast majority of Ukrainians across its entire territory.

One more thing I want to add. East part of Ukraine is less developed. I mean it is visible that less money has been spent for infrastructure, roads, hospitals and schools in general. Why? Because governments didn't spend equal amount of money to the east part of Ukraine.

What you said here is true. The Kiev supporters never bring up the burning of people in Odessa and the bombing of Donetsk, only their own side of the argument.

@@Coconautifystill is . Watch channels of people who haven’t left or just came back to eastern Ukraine . As it comes to kid’s research volhynia massacre. Find out what Ukrainians were doing to polish kids . Scenes straight from the worst horror movie

@@Acts1043 nice try ruzzian scam, why you not mentioned that Donetsk wouldn't be ever bombed if ruzzian military not invaded in Donetsk region. Why you not mentioned that proruzzian scam prepared molotov cocktails and as result burning themselves?

because you stupid ruzzke scam?

While when people put the word "russian" and the word "culture" one after the other in a sentence, nobody laughs because we all think of genocide.

@@1midnightfish What 'genocide' specifically do you keep thinking about? In Rwanda or in Armenia? Huh?

@@vasiliev62 Well, apart from the Holodomor 90 years ago, there's the genocide that putin's russia has been perpetrating in Ukraine since 24th February 2022

З'їбете звідти, тоді і опитаємо. Пнх

your momma is not Ukraine anymore

They are temporarily occupied areas, like Crimea and parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzha

@@1midnightfish BS. These territories had been conquered by Russian tzars centuries ago. Lawless Bolsheviks gave them away to a newly formed Ukraine without having asked local population. They have returned where they belong now and forever.

​@@user-sm1rd9cw5x like Kherson is Russian forever ? 😂😂 Keep dreaming.

?? They very fluently speak their native language.

@@1midnightfish Some are slow.The funny thing when they are in dire situations they prefer to talk in Russian as the mova will impede their vocal speed and hence can cause a disaster for them.Check battle videos of Asov.Kracken ect.

@@devansa125 The funny thing is that nobody needs you to tell them that some Ukrainian soldiers often communicate in russian - we know . I've seen some battlefields videos, and also follow a number a number of military bloggers who do sometimes talk about language - some have Ukrainian as a first language, some russian, some habitually speak surzhyk, and switch from one to the other as the situation requires. In a crisis it makes sense to use one's easiest language, and which language that is depends on the person at that particular moment (for me, for example, my easiest language is my second, not my first). You don't actually deserve this much typing - I'm writing this for anyone else who may come across this thread at some point. And in that spirit, I'll mention a language-related fact that happened in Ukraine a month or so ago: a well-know university lecturer, blogger and TV personality (Iryna Farion) lost her job after stating in an interview that any Ukrainian who still speaks russian, she does not consider to be Ukrainian; she singled out russian speakers in the armed forces. And while she did get some public support, overall Ukrainians didn't like that at all, and nor did the authorities and her employer. So much for the persecution of russian speakers in Ukraine.

@@1midnightfish But you have to understand that all russian speaking AFU will be second class if ,big if,Ukraine can finish this war.For me it is a hopeless situation for Ukraine not because of the Russian armed forces but how ukranian treat each other.It is a real civil war at its best.

@@devansa125 What rubbish. It is obvious to anyone paying even passing attention that there is no civil war in Ukraine, not even the one that putin & co have been trying to fuel for years. And no russian-speaking person is or ever will be a second class citizen of Ukraine, as long as they follow the law and use Ukrainian when required, i.e. when providing a service to others. Which they will be able to do, because most Ukrainians are bilingual. I myself have a russophone Ukrainian relative, who is really happy to see Ukrainian gaining more and more traction in the country. The current aversion to the russian language in the wider population is completely understandable, considering it's the language of the attempted genocide. Reintegration of the occupied territories will be a challenge, but there are already people working on how to do this in whatever way is best for the country and the population. No one - NO ONE - will miss the occupiers once they're gone. The collaborators will just follow them when they go, unless SBU gets to them first. It will take a while, but Ukraine will emerge from this latest attempt to destroy it, and transition into the bright future it is now fighting so hard for.

Link, please? Otherwise, it's just bs.

and I see the old video of Zelensky when he just comedian, he using bandera and meinkraft book as a joke, actually he was smart and criticize about society issue, he have knowladge, Zelensky have brilliant joke just like George Callin method about culture devide in Ukriane, when he runing campaign for president he promise to make a peace in donbass. but he change now, it seem he got circling by the ultra-nationalist influence, and US-UK intelligent are waging war to click bait russia to enter the conflict in east ukraine. so he change his ordinary views. sad 😢😮

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How was it a fatal mistake to ensure the national language was taught in all schools? Especially considering that those areas were aggressively russified under the soviet union, and the muscovite empire before it.

@@1midnightfish talk about long time ago that never be an issue in america since revolution free from british. so why must be a problem. can you imagine china reject the chinese language because they against taiwanese? 😂 can you imagine if berlgian ethic live in german or netherland ethnic live in german then they cant speak own language. maybe it can be happen if EU collapse

What nonsense! If it were Russian they wouldn't be part of Ukraine. Back in 91. Your some kind of troll...

Clearly not.

Ukraine is a sovereign state which was recognised even by Russia that signed with Ukraine two bilateral treaties. Is it a special feature of Russia that has diplomatic relations and signs international agreements with itself? Btw. The Ukraine Russia bilateral treaty 2003 where Ukraine’s 1991 borders that include Crimea and Donbas were recognised was signed by Putin.

The people whose view of your claims matters are the Ukrainians. They are all individuals with a range of opinions. So some form of open debate and counting is required: i.e. a form of democracy.

@@ninaotan7811 what about Serbia and kosovo? Serbia was also a sovereign country

@@gabrielbakalarz5722 It's about as rational to assume that the ethnic tension beset Yugoslavia can neatly and smoothly transition into a harmonious patchwork of several distinct "sovereign countries" within a fortnight as it is to blame Gorbachev of the 1990s for the fact that the economy and politics of the USSR could not accomplish a similarly smooth transition in a similar time period. Are you *seriously* claiming that you did not already know what I just said? You have heard of a state called Yugoslavia, yes? And USSR? One day perhaps you'll find a more productive use of your own life than to mindlessly parrot the absurd distortions emanating from your tsar and his obsequious propagandists.

@@davidwright5094 I’m not talking about Yugoslavia. I’m talking about Serbia after collapse of Yugoslavia. Why nato took Kosovo away from Serbia ?

And bolcheviks wasn t criminal ? I talk about russian speaking but cause holodomor ukrainian has been replaced by russian people do you understand ?

@@BenBen-ge3gt aborigines in Australia and Indians in America also were killed and replaced by white people, do you understand?

There is no ban on the russian language in Ukraine. There are restrictions that were placed in 2022 after the start of the war that in some ways impact russia's ability to utilize certain channels for spreading propaganda, but in no way ban or place restrictions on the general usage of the russian language by Ukrainian citizens. Specifically, restrictions were place that prevented russian citizens from printing books (unless they take Ukrainian citizenship), the import of books from russia (seems reasonable given that Ukraine and russia are at war, and part of that war is a very obvious psychological and propaganda war against the combined Ukraine / west), and the usage of music created by post-1991 russian citizens.

Ukrainian people are very peaceful so let them live in peace you 15000 kilometer from Moscow to Vladivostok.

@@BenBen-ge3gt proved it in volhynia 1943 . Peacefull as f…k lol you are totally brainwashed

Of course because it's a blatant lie. In the way that the only civilians bombed are the ones refusing to leave the frontline.