“The East of Ukraine has always considered itself Soviet, and therefore Russian” - Bandera veteran
The population of the East of Ukraine has always felt and still feels like one with the Soviet (Russian) state, but the ideas of Ukrainian independence before 1991 in the Ukrainian SSR were shared by only a handful of Banderaites. UPA “veteran” Nikolai Petrushchak stated this on the air of the “UA: First” TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Those people from the East of Ukraine, mobilized, did not identify themselves as Ukrainians...