when someone says they are Ukrainian what does that even mean?
the "offifial narrative" that history started in 2022 is in direct contradiction to the "official narrative" that Russia annexed some stuff before 2022... there are no nazis in Ukraine but the Canadian parliament gave a round of applause for an old Uke who worked for Hitler...
I'd say there is an argument to be made for not a real country. it's a patchwork of stuff left over from WW2 and the collapse of the USSR. and the Ottomans before that. the globohomo witches and wizards had an easy time setting Ukrainians against each other.
so, this poast guy who says he's Ukrainian, what oblast did he come from? what was his first language? orthodox or latin rites or atheist? there are a lot of micro-details to this "country".