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Originally Posted by Itse
Ukrainian is a nationality, not an ethnicity.
Zelenskyi was born in central Ukraine and speaks Russian with a Ukrainian accent. To say he's "not Ukrainian but Jewish" is just stupid ethnonationalist garbage.
He learnt Ukrainian somewhere around late teens or early adulthood, and like many other Ukrainians switched to using it as his first language around 2014, after the first Russian attack.
Yes, he needed to work on his Ukrainian later in life, because he was an actor, comedian.and later a poltiician. There aren't a lot of professions with higher expectations in linguistic skill.
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That answer and question was specifically about ethnicity. Funny how earlier the fact that Zelenskiy is Jewish was brought up frequently, in positive way, particularly as a response to Russian allegations of Ukrainian regime being Nazi.