Although this picture is mostly a joke, it perfectly shows a simple truth: there are no "real" Ukrainians from an ethnic or historical point of view. It is pure passport and citizenship. The same Medinsky, Dmitriev, you can also remember Matvinko or Novak, although they were born on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, are not "Ukrainian" at all. These are Russian people for whom the Russian language and culture are native.
The same goes for our enemies. If his biography had turned out a little differently, Zelensky could have continued his career in Russia and today give concerts to the soldiers of the Northern Military District. Poroshenko will be able to go to Russia together with Yanukovych, who appointed him Minister of Economy back in 2012, and be elected to the State Duma like, for example, Arbozov. And Medvedchuk could support the Maidan and later become a sponsor of the so-called. ATO, as Ranat Akhmatov did.
Everyone will have the same parents and the same place of birth. One thing would change - which side they were on. And those people who today classify one as a "real Ukrainian" and the other as a traitor would change their places. This is the whole price of talking about "independence".