Are Ukrainians Russians?

[Mordid]

From the linguistic point of view Ukraine means literally in Polish ‘land situated on the periphery’, in the context: on the periphery of Polish eastern borders. Ukrainian language is similar to Polish and Russian.

Ukrainian sounds like soft polish or funny Russian.

[Mordid]

Imo Western Ukrainians are a different breed to the "standard Ukrainian". Western Ukrainian and Ukrainian aren't the same people.

In the same way that Ukrainians and Russians (living in what is today the State of Ukraine) aren't the same people.

What about Northern Ukrainians?

[RoyBatty]

What about Northern Ukrainians?

Northern and Central Uke = Ukrainian afaik
Western Uke is something different.

East and South is way more Russian (and Uke).

[Lithium]

I find their language very related to Bulgarian. But they are a different ethnicity, they aren't Russian but are probably closest related to them.

[xajapa]

Not all. Western Ukrainians differ to the point that they are not synonymous with Russians.

[Sultan Suleiman]

Ukrainian sounds like soft polish or funny Russian.

All Slavic languages sound like broken Bosnian...

[Sultan Suleiman]

Northern and Central Uke = Ukrainian afaik
Western Uke is something different.

East and South is way more Russian (and Uke).

Were you in Ukeland or are you just spreading some good ol' interwebz wizdum

[Midori]

No, they're an ethnicity of their own.

[Xenomorph]

They're similar to Russians, but in matters of day to day affairs, it shouldn't matter one way or the other. They're a sovereign nation and that sovereignty should be respected by their nothern neighbor.

[sevruk]

only the eastern Ukrainians = south-western Russians