Whithout this substance a country, and a coulture can`t exist. I agree, that Germany maby has this substance, UK, USA, Poland. But not Ukraine. Ukraine shares the same soul with Russia. Therefore, it is not necessary to produce unnecessary entities.
I would say more. Russia is the center of our local universe. And countries near Russia is even called so Belarus - White Russia, Ukraine - The Borderland (of Russia).
Why Germany is not real country? They are ashamed and disgraced like a nation because of their overly arrogant policy, but i feel that they still have their spirit.
Btw, Belarussian presiden Lukashenko, calls himself and his citizens just a russians. He literally says so "we are russians and we...". I even dont understand why we still have any borders between countries.