Original sentence: Today, the term is anachronistic, and is very offensive to Ukrainians
Edited sentence: In his prominent work Two Russian nationalities, Kostomarov uses Southern Russia and Little Russia interchangeably.This can be seen from its usage in numerous scholarly, literary and artistic works.Today, the term is anachronistic, and many Ukrainians regard its usage as offensive.Ukrainophile historians Mykhaylo Maksymovych, Nikolay Kostomarov, Dmytro Bahaliy, and Volodymyr Antonovych acknowledged the fact that during the Russo-Polish wars, Ukraine had only a geographical meaning, referring to the borderlands of both states, but Little Russia was the ethnonym of Little (Southern) Russian people