Kyiv Targets Ukraine’s Beleaguered Diaspora of about 6 million living in Russia

This is big news! The population of the Ukraine is about 44 million.

"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s decree on protecting the rights of Ukrainians in Russia looks like a tit-for-tat response to Kremlin rhetoric on defending Russian-speakers in Ukraine. ...

The new presidential decree on the protection of the Ukrainian minority in Russia designates several Russian regions close to the Ukrainian border (including the Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, and Rostov regions) as territory “historically populated by Ukrainians,” and calls for the rights of the Ukrainian minority living there to develop their language and culture to be upheld.

How Ukraine actually intends to apply this policy in practice is unclear, but the propaganda value of the decree is plain to see: if Putin insists that Ukraine contains “Russian lands” unfairly “given away” by Lenin or Khrushchev, then two can play that game. ..."

"The Russian census identified that there were more than 5,864,000 Ukrainians living in Russia in 2015, representing over 4.01% of the total population of the Russian Federation  ..." (Wikipedia)

Amid Frontline Stalemate, Kyiv Targets Ukraine’s Beleaguered Diaspora in Russia - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The harsh reality of war means that Russia’s Ukrainians are condemned to either assimilate fast or move back to their historical homeland, where they will inevitably fall under suspicion.