>>508878555That was always a lie on the part of the Russians.
Their superiority complex towards the Ukrainians is so bad it's part of the reason the start of the war was such a disaster for them, they genuinely did not think the Ukrainians would fight them, because they didn't believe them when they were told that they would.
It's literally cost Russia many lives just because they can't look at them as equals.
Their can never be any type of unity or "brotherhood" when one side looks down on the other.