Wrong again, Bob. The Ukrainians (in the West) voted to be independent of the USSR, NOT RUSSIA.

From Wikipedia:

The Ukrainian sovereignty referendum was conducted on March 17, 1991, as part of the first and only Soviet Union referendum. Throughout the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, voters were asked two questions on remaining part of the Soviet Union on New Union Treaty terms. Most voters supported the proposal, however, in the pro-independence Oblasts of Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Ternopil, voters opted for independence as part of an additional question.

The referendum followed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine by the republic's parliament on July 16, 1990, as sovereign republic within the Soviet Union, in line with the results.[1]

In August 1991, with the New Union Treaty having not been adopted by the USSR, the withdrawal from the Soviet Union was proposed. The overwhelming majority of voters backed the idea in another referendum in December, approving a declaration of independence.[2]