Maybe you can enlighten me, because aside from the last eight years, I can only think of two cases in recent times where Ukrainians fought Russians: WW2 and the Russian Civil War. The latter needs an asterisk as well, because who were the Ukrainians? The Ukrainian People’s Republic? The West Ukrainian People’s Republic? The Ukrainian Socialist Republic? Skoropadsky? Makhno? Petliura? Army of Southern Russia?

They were all fighting various factions and often times each other.

Man some of you have genuine reading comprehension. I have literally provided a link that talks about Ukraine going back to Kyiv Rus. So click on that link. Read it. Then respond back without a strawman

Then they did a shit job at it, because during the Russian Empire, the area where Ukrainian was spoken increased to include the Donbas, Southern Ukraine, Kuban and even Crimea.

When have the Russians ever been efficient at anything except consuming alcohol?

But honestly, this is a case of winners writing history. We don’t think of Southern France as a seperate people subjugated by Paris. Or Germans oppressed by Prussia. Or the various Italians by Rome. Russia had the misfortune of collapsing thirty years ago.

Have no idea how this is relevant but ok. Russia didn’t collapse, that will happen in the coming years. The Soviet Union collapsed.