When it comes to slavering racist murderers, ethnicity, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Anyone who dares to say, as Putin has, that the Ukrainians and Russians are "fraternal peoples" or "brother slavs" or in any way related is instantly attacked, excoriated and condemned by the rabid Nazi nationalists.

If these disgusting criminals had any sense of relation to Russians, they would not refer to them as "orcs" and "cockroaches" and so on.

So when I say "ethnic Russians" it is a form of shorthand to refer to those Ukrainians who speak Russian, want their kids to learn Russian language, culture and history, etc. and want to worship in Russian and marry in Russian.

That, for those Nazi swine, is enough to make you a "cockroach" rather than a human being.

Or, as Ukrainian post-coup Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said, a "subhuman".