Russians/Ukrainians genetically the same.

[Slavic Italian]

Pretty vanilla article but nice read. I want to add I realize there are differences now in culture and in language. This is about genetics.

https://www.fort-russ.com/2016/02/qu...ysis-confirms/

[Blondie]

South russians and ukrainians can be same, but north russians are different thing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15974299

Many north russian is just slavized finno-ugrian.

[Slavic Italian]

South russians and ukrainians can be same, but north russians are different thing.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15974299

Many north russian is just slavized finno-ugrian.

I have a lot of Slav, Finn, and Turkic but my Y is Slavic R1a1a. These are my average IBD hits per population and these are my highest hits as far as modern populations.

Finnish 6.9837311
Saami 6.8176184
Russian_Central 6.3129655
Cossack_Kuban 6.3128055
Karelian 5.547862
Irish 5.422011
Ukrainian_East 5.1333935
Ukrainian_North 5.0581372
Russian_North 4.5513911

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

Even Ukrainians aren't same people. West Ukrainians are different from rest of Ukies (those close to south Russians for sure). Northern Russians are mixed with Finns.

[Proto-Shaman]

I have a lot of Slav, Finn, and Turkic but my Y is Slavic R1a1a.

Your Avatar name is 100% right. Latin and Slavic are very close to each other. Even genetically Balkan Slavs are overlapping with Italians and Romanians. You can see that pattern right through Ukraine and south Russia.

[Arsen_]

I can say nothing about genetics, but judging by appearance, if we exclude so called Southern Russians who are actually Russified Ukrainians then Russians and Ukrainians are very different in looks. At least I can see difference instantly. And for example the Russian person from Nizhny Novgorod looks much closer to Finno Ugric Mordvin or even Volga Tatar than to Ukrainian from say Kharkov let alone to Ukrainian from Western part of Ukraine.

[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić]

Russians are whiter. Even if more Siberian shifted, and not all. Saw some so exotic Ukrainians that look like Turks and hard-core Balkanites. You won't find Russians like that.

[Aspirin]

Ukrainians and Russians have some differences in phenotype, but genetically, Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are quite homogenous group, despite being scattered on such big territory.

[Ryuk]

Except Northeast Russian,yes

[Mingle]

I can say nothing about genetics, but judging by appearance, if we exclude so called Southern Russians who are actually Russified Ukrainians then Russians and Ukrainians are very different in looks. At least I can see difference instantly. And for example the Russian person from Nizhny Novgorod looks much closer to Finno Ugric Mordvin or even Volga Tatar than to Ukrainian from say Kharkov let alone to Ukrainian from Western part of Ukraine.

Russified Ukrainians? Ukraine is the newer nation, so Ukrainians would be Ukrainianized southern Russians if anything.

And it's weird for you to treat northern Russians as the "original Russians" when they're the ones that have less Slavic and more Uralic admixture than their southern counterparts.