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[quote=Anonymous][quote]There is a linguistic difference between Russian and Ukrainian. It's like the difference between Czech and Slovak or Serbian and Croatian. Distinct people with distinct languages but speakers of each can more or less understand each other. But people claiming that all Ukrainians are Russian speakers and by extension Russian are Kremlin propagandists and imperialists. Ukraine is Ukraine. It is not Little Russia.  [/quote]

This is correct.  They are both languages descended from Old Slavonic, but they evolved very differently and have many different terms, loan words, expressions and so on.  Ukrainian language is more closely related to Belarussian than it is Russian.  And in fact, Ukrainian cyrillic has letters that don't exist in Russian cyrillic  (ґ, є, і, ї) which is also why 'Hostomel' is pronounced 'Gostomel' by Russians, and why 'Luhansk' is pronounced 'Lugansk' by Russians, because they have no analogue to the Ukrainian h versus g.  Г/Ґ are two different letters and different sounds in Ukrainian, but just gets reduced to 'g' by Russians.  There are also a number of cultural, religious and ethnic differences between Russians and Ukrainians.[/quote]

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