It doesn't matter if Ukraine wasn't a state, if the people themselves found a cultural identity outside the sphere of influence of the Rus and Muscovites. The Ukranians were still not Russian before that as they were part of the Poland Lithuanian Commonwealth.
It doesn't matter if Ukraine wasn't a state, if the people themselves found a cultural identity outside the sphere of influence of the Rus and Muscovites. The Ukranians were still not Russian before that as they were part of the Poland Lithuanian Commonwealth.