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I don't know any Ukrainians who claim, as you say, that Russians are 'lesser' in an ethnic sense. It's always out of contempt for their love of imperialism/subjugation/nationalism and never something 'genetic'
Do you think you could visually distinguish a Russian from a Ukrainian?
I can't also tell apart europeans. They all just look 'european' to me. It doesn't matter how we see them. Do Ukrainians consider themselves different from Russians? Yes, they do, and that's what matters.
It is Ukrainian nationalism that is the problem here, what was the root of the Ukrainian ethnic cleansing campaign against the Russian-identifying eastern populace. This was Ukrainian subjugation of Russians. It is the Ukrainians who are putting swastika, totencopfs, etc on everything and openly idolizing WWII era nazis like Bandera. If you don't think that literal ethnic cleansing isn't about heritage (aka "genetics") then I don't know what to tell you, you're just not living in consensus reality.