First of all get into your brain that Cossacks lived in the Kuban not Ukrainians True even I do not deny the Ukrainian influence on the Kuban dialect but those songs were Cossack songs Is Rasprigaite Hlopsi Koni or Lyubo bratsi Lyubo a Ukrainian folk song No they are Cossack folk songs Here is a POV vandal who thinks that UkrainiansCossacks Have a look at the Russian census for Kuban for that fact Cossacks are presented as a separate subgroup of RUSSIANS