[romwell]

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[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of nation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[romwell]

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[mdp2021]

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[dang]

Please don't take HN threads further into nationalistic flamewar, regardless of nation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[aguaviva]

Ask historians: you may get surprised.

What they will tell you is -- up until the genocide against the Tatars (and other groups), the majority of its population was always solidly non-Russian.

And that its prior ownership by whichever colonial powers is entirely irrelevant to its current legal jurisdiction.

Which is unambiguously Ukrainian.