I think you need to google the meaning of the word "colony".

The fact is irrefutable: there was never any Ukrainian State prior to the Ukrainian SSR. It was always part of Russia.

When US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was introduced as part of the incoming Biden Administration in November, 2020, he referenced his anti-Russian bona fides:

“My grandfather, Maurice Blinken, escaped the pogroms in Russia and found a new life in America”.

BLINKEN'S GRANDFATHER WAS FROM KIEV.

https://medium.com/@euroyankeeblog/alarm-ukrainian-extremists-are-running-the-us-state-department-2adb1dd05a43