jhungary
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It is, you are thinking about "Ethnic" Russian. not "Russo-Phone" Ethnic Russian is people that have root in Russia, people that have relative that was born in Russia, like a Chinese American is Ethnic Chinese, but Russo-Phone people can mean anyone that speak the language and have some degree of connection with Russia. A person form Louisiana can be said as Franco-phone because of the French influence, but they are not ethnic French.Russo-phone is not 80% of the population and most of these are located in the Novorossiya part but they don't make 80% of the population more like 30% counting to around 14-million and all of them are not ethnic ukrainians meaning around 7-8 million of these are actually ethnic russians and these were the once in the civil war hence this was along ethnic lines
And again, it depends on how you define "Pro-Russia"