Ethnicity map of Ukraine (2016)
Ethnicity map of Ukraine (2016)
‘It is really controversial. In Ukraine there is no official definition as nationality in any state-issued documents. So when somebody gets a citizenship they automatically become “Ukrainian” for the government. The question to implement the nationality is widely spoken but blocked from the above. I personally had a chance to face the government on that question when I needed at least some official paper which would admit my wife’s German ancestry. All her ancestors were ethnic Germans and in the USSR they had clearly stated nationality in all their documents. But in Ukraine, my wife just became Ukrainian citizen. No nationality anywhere. So I am very sceptical about any map about ethnic groups in Ukraine made by any gagency based on state data
While spoken community language does not equal to ethnicity 1:1, there is a correlation. And there are way more Russian speaker plurality rayons than indicated above. The “truth”, if there is any, might be between the two
I’m the opposite example. I was born in Russia, but ethnically ukranian. I don’t speak ukranian language and don’t have ukranian citizenship. So I’m ukranian for russians and russian for ukranians’