yes, but these are genetical clusters. Ivano-Frankivsk looks genetically identical to Zakarpatye and different from Lviv.
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I officially accept you as Russian :swl In my book Polish blood is not foreign, just like Baltic and Finnic (let alone Ukrainian and Belarusian).
By the way, Orthodox Christianity exists in Poland proper, the autocephalous Polish Orthodox Church has between 500,000 and 1 million adherents (both active and nominal).
New Ukrainian average comes closest to SW Russians, and I think it's excellent modern proxy for early Slavic input.
It clusters somewhere between Lithuanians and North Moldovans, so between Balts and northern Balkanites, I think that's what early Slavs were like.
Belarausians, Russians Smolensk and Masurians IMO are Baltic admixed, while Polish average has slight east Germanic input (still very Slavic nevertheless)
South Slavs strongly prefer Ukrainians as their Slavic proxy in my modeling, and Vbn did excellent thing to opt out for average of main Ukrainian genetic cluster instead of all-country average which wouldn't be so pure.
But you know, that your ancestors were Poles, and you can say the percentage of Polish blood - so you prove my statement:DQuote:
I think, if Ukrainian has Polish ancestry - he must know that, because assimilation of Poles became perceptible only in 20 century.