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I don’t know a thing about this research organization but I smell some rat droppings in its generalizations. The Ukraine is and has a long history of fractionalization re religions, political tendencies, etc.

It was the crossroad of commerce, education and religions, as well as political movements/nations so was part of the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire which split into various claimed territories known as Poland, Hungary, the newly created country of Ukraine, Russia, etc.

The region kept changing and splitting right after WW1 and many of them are still in play, esp. Russia/The Soviet Union by conquest which is using the old German cultural/linguistic tactic of claims to parts of an existing country with citizens whose language is not that of the majority of the new state.

Here in the U.S., this type of “claim”, based on language and heritage, is typified by the marxist/irredentist La Raza movement led by the MARXIST political family of the Castro family in New Mexico. A terrorist leaning component of this irredentist movement is the Republic of Atzlan organization.

I know a little about the older Ukraine as my grandmother was born in Lemberg, today known as Lviv/Lvov, when it was under the rule of Emperor Franz Joseph last century. Her family which basically remained there instead of emigrating to the U.S., was executed by the German/Nazis with no known survivors.

I would like Ukraine to be a democratic and non-segmented country but right now that isn’t going to happen while Putin
attempts to reconstruct the Soviet Union. He is a nuclear threat to peace, not Ukraine which voluntarily gave up its nukes for international guarantees to their independent existence.

Often there are no really good guys in a fight. Remember we supported Russia/Soviet Union, led by genocidal murderer Joseph Stalin against two other mass murderers, Hitler and .Mussolini, as well as against Imperial Japan, another genocidal nation.

Imagine what would have been the outcome of WW2 if we hadn’t.

Not every Ukrainian is a Nazi/sympathizer. It should be our hope and goal to help the more democratic tendencies to lead a freer Ukraine.