“Not likely since the question was asked in Russian then he would have responded in Russian, not English......”
How do you know he speaks Russian? I know plenty of Americans of Ukrainian descent who speak English and Ukrainian and no Russian. The same goes for a number of Canadians too who are of Ukrainian descent.
You'll have to excuse my obvious ignorance since I'm not multilingual as you obviously are. So please forgive me........
I expected that question to be asked by the nitpickers such as you and so I will modify my statement to include not only Russian but Ukrainian..........
So here we go:
“Not likely since the question was asked in either Russian OR Ukrainian then he would have responded in either Russian OR Ukrainian, not English......”
THERE, does that make you happy now?
And I know plenty of Ukrainians (including the woman I am married to) who speak nothing but Russian. My Donbass-born wife views Ukrainian as a peasant "trailer trash" language, --a language spoke by uneducated villagers, and while she can understand it, she certainly wouldn't ever speak it.