Are you not Alex-Rus? Alex is not Northern Russian, he's Central Russian and one quarter Southwestern, if I remember correctly. If you are not him, then why do you hate me, a basically non-active member?
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I'd agree with you on the cultural part, Russians (especially urbanised ones) are really different from Ukrainians, especially the ones from the western regions, but phenotypically? It depends on which part of the country you're talking about. Obviously Russians from south-western/central regions would look identical to Ukrainians from south/north-eastern and central parts of Ukraine, but Russians aren't a monolith group, they have several different populations inside their nation. A northern Russian (a proper one and not some larper) would be much closer to Karelians and Estonians (both genetically and phenotypically) than to a Russian/Ukrainian from the southern regions. There's generally a single genetical continuum stretching from Poland all the way to Russia, and Russians(mostly southern ones), Ukrainians, Poles and Belarusians(central and southern ones) clump together into one cluster.
Modern Ukraine is just a huge historical territory, it's a big lies saying that territory of ex-USSR inhabited by homogeneous historical nation of Ukrainians. Me personally as Southern of Nikolaev (so called Mykolaiv) want just a separation, Russia does not need central Ukraine, after the war it should be a Ukrainian state, all the South-East should become Russia and it will forget the Ukrainism as a horror dream in 1-2 generations.