In Ukraine, though, Russian stayed a major language with significant amount of people using it as their main language. Still, in some areas, especially in Western Ukraine it started to lose its importance.

Let’s looks at different areas of language to compare how similar or different Ukrainian and Russian are. Ukraine is a bilingual country with Ukrainian and Russian as the two widely used languages. The language situation in Ukraine is probably more complicated than Ukrainian grammar!

There’s a lot of speculation: Some say that Ukrainian is a fake language and just a vernacular of Russian (and there’s apparently even fake evidence of that!). In order to know for sure, let’s take a closer look at these two languages and their histories. Both Russian and Ukrainian come from the same roots: Old East Slavic.

Russian and Ukrainian are closely related, being that they’re both East-Slavic languages and in terms of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, they have a lot in common even though other Slavic languages might be closer.