That's only show you that you don't really know much about Ukrainian in general.
Ever wonder why Ukrainian need to learn Russian? If they are ex-Russian, then should the Russian understand the language of their "brothers" the Ukrainian language? I mean, if I was talking to a Portuguese in Spanish, he or she may not learn Spanish before, but he/she will know 70% of what I said, and I would know about 60% of what he said.
But ever wonder why if a Ukrainian speak Ukrainian to a Russian, they understand 0% of what the Ukrainian said?
If you know anything about Ukrainian or even Eastern European Culture, you will know both Ukrainian language and culture is closer to Serbian (another Slavic culture) than Russian, calling "they are colonising ex-Russian" is laughable. The only thing literally in common between Russia (NOT SOVIET UNION, but Russia) is like almost all ex-Soviet Republic, like Kazakh or Uzbek or Georgian for that matter, is they were all ex-Soviet Bloc, and they were all forced to learn Russian as their language. And yes, a Serb will understand some degree of Ukrainian even without learning the language.
Was just talking to my friend Misha on Facebook the other day
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(Oops forgot to black out his surname....)
This is my facebook page by the way and this is Misha profile by the way. (And by the way, I used to date his older sister)
We talk about how litter people know about the different between Russia and Ukrainian. I mean, do you even know the different between Ukrainian orthodox church and Russian orthodox church before you talk about, they are ex-Russian??
Man, I am going to screen cap your post and send it to Misha so we can have a laugh.