it's hilarious to me how russia posters constantly say "ukrainian isn't a real ethnicity, ukrainians are russians" and then also say Ukrainians are subhumans

Who has ever said these two things together?

Ukrainians are a real ethnicity, and they're absolutely not subhuman. Ukrainian nazi larpers that have gotten into power since 2014 - surely are subhuman. But they aren't an ethnic, or even a linguistic (all of them are native russophones) group...

hehe that marsey was inspired by the slavshit folx

Both are true of course

Well yes, you have normal Russians, who are called Russians, and you have subhuman Russians, who are called Ukrainians. Normal Russians want to civilize the subhuman ones, but the subhuman Russians are resisting.

Ok and

We're saying it's not a real country. Russia is a multinational country, I don't personally care about ethnicities. The point is some braindead rednecks separated and tried really hard for 30 years to antagonize Russia, then finally they got what they wanted and now they're pissing and pooping everywhere. Whether you count them as a separate ethnicity or not is irrelevant