>>665you're just regurgitating russian propaganda talking points
ukraine has always been a distinctive historical entity and just because they were ruled by foreign polities throughout history doesn't mean that the people themselves magically disappeared
i also think you also fail to understand that the concept of a national identity as we know it today really come into place during the 19th, early 20th century, and loyalties before that were personal (i.e. to a sovereign)
anyway, take for example latvia and estonia, which after being ruled by various empires only started to exist as nominally independent countries in the 20th century after the collapse of the russian empire, and were then forcibly reabsorbed by the ussr to finally achieve independence in the 90s, are they fake countries too and should they just roll over to russia because there are russian minorities living there?
>"Ukraine" didn't exist at all until 1917 communist revolution where it was just a region of the USSR.>"Ukraine" was invented after the collapse of the USSR in the early 90s. again, russian propaganda talking points that are factually incorrect
after the revolution the Ukrainian People's Republic was a distinct independent polity which was anti-bolshevik and was only absorbed into the USSR proper in 1920
also, during the german invasion in ww2 ukrainian nationalists collaborated with the germans and fought against the ussr because they wanted independence, but i guess that doesn't count either and they were retroactively created by le evil american capitalists in the 90s to weaken the glorious soviet union