Quote Originally Posted by E-learner View Post
"Москаль" is not "a Russian". This word has a long history, but I'll just summarize the contemporary usage.
It's a person, as a rule a Russian but not necessarily, who thinks that Ukraine must not exist, or must be a part of Russia. Or thinks that Ukrainian nation or language do not exist, etc etc. That sort of person.
IDK how you were able to come up with such description but here is what wiki says:

Моска́ль (укр. москаль, белор. маскаль, польск. Moskal) в украинском, польском, белорусском языках — шовинистическое национальное прозвище, употребляемое по отношению к русским
...Слово происходит от названия столицы России — Москвы, являясь таким образом изначально этнохоронимом.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Москаль

As you can see there is nothing about "Ukraine must not exist, or must be a part of Russia". And the word is, in fact, means "a Russian"