Russians in Ukraine - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_UkraineRussians in Ukraine (Ukrainian: Росіяни в Україні, Rosiyany v Ukrayini; Russian: Русские в Украине, Russkiye v Ukrainye) are the largest ethnic minority in the country. This community forms the largest single Russian diaspora in the world. In the 2001 Ukrainian census, 8,334,100 identified as ethnic Russians (17.3% of the population of Ukraine); this is the combined figure for persons originating from outside of Ukraine and the Ukrainian born population declaring Russian ethnicity.