For a long time there was a country in that middle area between Central Europe and Russia - it was variously called Greater Lithuania/Poland etc. It existed for hundreds of years and there is an approximate ethnic group in that region. Sometimes they are called Ruthenians. Ukrainian people, the ethnicity, in the regions of this former empire are part of this group. They mostly cluster in the Western part of the country, which you'll notice Russia has no interest in. Ukraine, again mostly in the west, also contained a lot of Jews during the Russian Empire. There was a region called the "Pale of Settlement" where jews were allowed to live and much of it was in Ukraine.
Empire_of_the_Mind 1 points 2.2 years ago
For a long time there was a country in that middle area between Central Europe and Russia - it was variously called Greater Lithuania/Poland etc. It existed for hundreds of years and there is an approximate ethnic group in that region. Sometimes they are called Ruthenians. Ukrainian people, the ethnicity, in the regions of this former empire are part of this group. They mostly cluster in the Western part of the country, which you'll notice Russia has no interest in. Ukraine, again mostly in the west, also contained a lot of Jews during the Russian Empire. There was a region called the "Pale of Settlement" where jews were allowed to live and much of it was in Ukraine.