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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by attentive on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:21PM (#39403744)
That too but I was referring to language differences. Untrained/unexposed russian won't understand UA language. They wouldn't even be able to pronounce it correctly if their life depended on it.
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Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities by lostmsu on Saturday February 17, 2024 @10:20PM (#39415866)
> Untrained/unexposed russian won't understand UA language.

As a Russian who is hosting Ukrainian refugees I can definitely say this is false. I can understand probably around 90% of raw speech in Ukrainian without any support and 0 prior experience.

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