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Amazing post Lena, it's very disappointing that many people do not know this matter of fact. That Kiev/Kyiv was called Mother of all Russian cities, and that many ethnic Russians/Russkiye/Rus' have ancestors from Kiev/Kyiv .

It is disappointing when see people do not know that ((©)) the Ukrainian capital Kyiv was one of the two cradles of Russian statehood - Kievan Rus - . That There is a long-standing proverb => 'Kiev - mother of Russian cities'. However, These were times when there was no distinction between Russians and Ukrainians (IX-XIII centuries AD) - we were one and the same ethnicity.