>>512933500
The languages aren't even mutually intelligible & both descend from different branches of Old East Slavic.

Ukrainians can only really understand you guys, because they're in your sphere of influence & they're exposed to your literature, music, film & their Eastern Russian speakers...

Can you even understand Ukrainian, outside of Russian loanwords & some common root words?

Besides that, you're both asiatic, slav dogs, but you guys are the more asiatic, mongolians of the two?