Russians are their grandparents? The 78% of the country that's ethnic Ukrainian? No, actually Russians starved their grandparents killing millions.
Yunukovich promised when he ran that Ukraine would become a client of Europe and not Russia.
Yanuk lied to get elected.
As a result 75% of the reps in Parliament impeached him.
What I meant is that the Ukraine has been a client of Russia since about the time of Peter the Great. In other words, they’re used to Russia.
In fact, “Fiddler on the Roof” is set somewhere near Kiev by the author of the Tevye stories, Kiev being where the student, Perchik has just come from.