69 % of Circassians living in Ukraine probably speak Russian .
Out of 1,010 Circassians living in Ukraine ( 473 Kabardian Adyghe ( Kabardin ) , 338 Adygean Adyghe , and 199 Cherkessian Adyghe ( Cherkess ) —after the existing Soviet division of Circassians into three groups ) , only 181 ( 17.9 % ) declared fluency in the native language ; 96 ( 9.5 % ) declared Ukrainian as native language and 697 ( 69 % ) marked `` other language '' as their native and most likely the latter is Russian , though none openly declared it .
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