:whose "nationalists"? Moscovitian? Agreed. Their miserable attemts "to declare" russians in Haličina indeed are something maniacal. At least for those who aren't introduced with russian imperialism. 
 Ukrainophiles were for halichian "peasants", thus for their own people, their language, culture; moscvophiles were for russian tsars, their seminatural late adopted by ugrofinns oldchurch language from Macedonia Slavs in kyiv redaction, they just wanted to be a part of russia. They absolutely ignored who their people lived with them actually were. They don't speak to them in language which those understood. This artificial movement was due to heavily denationalization of ukraine. It was ugly and antinatural and  imevitably and absolutely naturally failed. It have nothing to the geneologic investigations dont say the lye. But you with yours antiukrainian feelings and maybe ukrainian origin you of course free to call yours ancestors the russians. For this such an odd movement isn't needed even. But if your ancestor are from halichina, such the view doesn't make this something better than brainwashed idiotism, despite how much times you recall the "nationalists" with negative connotations. Ukrainians survived thank to the "nationalists". So you can now hate them. 
    UkrainianNationalist