it was never about a brotherhood but moskovy's attempts to call themselves Rus' descendants, stealing Ukr history and making Ukrainians a national minority by colonization and erasing their identity for centuries.

Sure, it's more pleasant to be descendants of Volodymyr the Great and other Kyivan princes than decendants of Mongol invaders

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