They are Ukrainian. Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Vynnitsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk are nearly pure Ukrainian and will remain so since the Russian have and will be taken.