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Just a fact check - as of 2001 there were 17% ethnic Russian population in Ukraine, so it's the largest minority but still, well, minority.
Now, if as of 2000's so many people were indeed speaking Russian *and* they were ethnic Ukrainians, it's difficult to explain that by anything else than gradual russification, as seen in Belarus and Caucasus.
It's just as hard to explain why Russia is so much offended by it when it so fiercely opposes "Westernisation".
