Ukrajinci nisu nego Rusi iz Ukrajine.. Ukrajinci žive u zapadnoj polovini Ukrajine. I da In July 1995, Ukrainian peacekeepers from the 240th Special Battalion successfully evacuated thousands of Bosniak civilians from the besieged UN "safe area" of Žepa, preventing a massacre similar to Srebrenica. Led by Colonel Mykola Verkhohliad, they negotiated with Bosnian Serb forces and guarded evacuation buses, averting a major humanitarian disaster.