You don't know your Russian history, Arsenios.
As for present day Ukraine, I have not followed the news.
What I know is the false belief of superiority that is held by Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church.
The actions of the Ecumenical Patriarch are a US Intelligence operation which is supporting him...
And offering autocephaly to the Ukranian schizmatics, he has not withdrawn it, and has them as his dependencies...
And oh by the way, he is just now also claiming for himself all Orthodox Churches in the Korean Peninsula...
This whole thing stinks, Menno...
Russia will defend Orthodox Christians and their Churches in the Ukraine from western engineered predations...
Call that what you will in false accusations of racial superiority allegations...
Putin is simply defending Christians against a secular government that wants them oppressed and eliminated...
The captain of the boat which is at the beginning of this latest round admitted he was instructed to provoke the incident, and that he had been entering these waters legally without incident for many years prior... He entered illegally this time to provoke an incident to get the US involved in the secular government's power grab to persecute Orthodox Christians whose land it is...
Arsenios