"* Regarding the removal of Kunis and Tkachuk, we don't know for sure if they are ethnically, or racially, Ukrainian. Neither identify as Ukrainians, neither have reliably confirmed Ukrainian roots. 

 ::Mila: 
 ::Per Yulia's comments on my talk page, referring to past talk page discussions about Mila on her own BLP, no source exists proving she is ethnically Ukrainian. We do know she emigrated from the Soviet Union, and was born in the Ukrainian SSR. We do know she is Jewish, and I have personally heard her self-identify as Russian on television. We cannot assume that because she was born in what is now Ukraine, that she now has Ukrainian roots. For all we know, she's 100% Jewish, or Russian-Jewish, or her parents or grandparents moved to Bukovina from somewhere else in the USSR, or she has Romanian roots. Whatever! We simply do not know, and thus, cannot include her as a postergirl for Ukrainian Americans. 

 ::Keith: 
 ::source 
 ::""..asked about the derivation of his last name, Tkachuk replies, ""It's Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, one of those""...his mother, in fact, is Irish"" 
 ::Tkachuk clearly knows its east slavic, but is unsure of a specific ethnic origin. I know of one other hockey player with the same surname who is confirmed Ukrainian, and another who is confirmed Polish. We cannot assume. We can confirm that he is not a member of the Ukrainian diaspora, however; he doesn't even know if he has a Ukrainian surname. 

 ::It is very easy for one to say any person of East Slavic descent is Ukrainian if you connect the dots back to Kyivan Rus', but that's a violation WP:OR in its most basic sense. -''''''   

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