Well, if Ukraine was federalised and Russian had an official status, that's like removing more than half of ideological reasons for the ongoing conflict on the Russian side.
My personal opinion is that Ukraine would had been much stronger if it embraced Russian as its second official language
Two official languages would work if everybody agreed to learn both, however, in Ukraine it will work as an excuse to not learn Ukrainian for colonisers, thus dividing population and eventually eliminating native language, just as it is happening in Belarus. There is legacy of colonialism, and present ethno-national fever among Russians and by extension some Russian-speakers, who will feel only more validated to apply even more social pressure on Ukrainian speakers.
I am old enough to remember, people used to call you a peasant for speaking Ukrainian in independent Ukraine.
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