[FreeReign]

People seem to forget that a good many Ukrainians are ethnic Russians who have been there for generations.

Ethnic Russians make up 17% of the population of Ukraine.

That's not "a good many".

[cripplecreek]

17% is a considerable number in a nation of nearly 45 million.

The Khmer Rouge killed “only” 20% of the Cambodians.

[VanShuyten]

“Ethnic Russians make up 17% of the population of Ukraine”

I read somewhere here on FR that Russian ethnics make up to about 70% of southern and eastern parts of the country - the parts Russia seems to be most interested in.

[cunning_fish]

>>Ethnic Russians make up 17% of the population of Ukraine.

That’s not “a good many”.<<

Numbers like that means nothing in terms of Ukrainian demographics.

That 17% are people who clearly identifies themselves as Russians. They don’t know a word in Ukrainian, they are refusing to stand to Ukrainian anthem and has a Russian flag flying in their yards.

Another 40% of Ukrainians actually calls themselves Ukrainians but they still don’t speak Ukrainian, they are watching only Russian movies, listening to Russian music, and they are getting their news from Russian media. They are Ukrainians in name only.