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Originally Posted by CyberSEO
Yep. Ask them. There was a guy Sid70 from the Ukraine. He hates Russia as a country. But he never speaks Ukrainian here. He speaks only Russian for some reason. BTW, at youtr picture it's written in a mad mix of languages. "I" is written in English. In Ukrainian (and in Russian) there must be "Я". So your picture is a bit... stupid.
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It's not stupid, it's how Ukrainians write the name of their capital city in English. We call it "Kiev", they call it "Kyiv". In Ukrainian it is written "Киів". Note the "i" which you do not have in the Russian cyrillic alphabet but exists in the Ukrainian one. No letter "я" needed.
I'm not disputing that most Ukrainians speak in Russian but it's wrong to say that Ukrainian is not used. I've met Ukrainians who only speak Russian and don't know Ukrainian, and I've met ones who believe that Ukrainian should be spoken first before Russian. It's one thing I've learned, you don't talk politics with Ukrainians until you
really know them!