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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 5236849" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>Looked it up and as of 2001 ethnic Ukrainians made up almost 78% of the population and ethnic Russians made up just over 17% with a smattering of smaller ethnic minorities.  Blacks make a little under 13% of the U.S.  Should we carve out a homeland for them?  Ukraine's borders were set long ago.  The biggest addition to them in recent generations was Khrushchev gave them the Crimean Peninsula which is 82% ethnic Russian and 10% ethnic Tatar. In the 2001 census the two divisions of the Donbas region had a 58% and 57% ethnic Ukrainian majority.  Ethnic Russians stood at  39% and 38%.  Today due to Russia supporting Russian separatists for 10 years many Ukrainians in that region have fled.  If any area had a right to demand a change in political boundaries it was the ethnic Russians in Crimea.</p></blockquote><p></p>