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Do you realize that we are Slavic nations, and this means that Ukraine is closer to Russia than to anyone else (not to the USA, not to France!).
I have always perceived Ukrainians as Russians, just living in their own country. Who is going to unite with whom? No one is planning to unite anyone!

I am from Belarus, and I look at this situation from a slightly different perspective; after all, our relations with Ukraine are different compared to Russia. I strongly disagree with the statement that Belarusians are just Russians living in another country. Again, no one is talking about a hostile attitude towards neighbors – quite the contrary, our countries have much in common, and I personally have a good attitude towards Russians and Ukrainians, but why specifically unite territorially? It smells of great-power ambitions disguised with vanilla phrases about Slavic peoples. In addition, this will contribute to the erosion of socio-cultural boundaries, which in Belarus are already in a rather precarious state.