Some go the EU countries, but the majority are still heading to Russia,
False.
You have to reconcile yourself with the facts, dude. I guess
this paper published in June 2013 and financed by the EU (just in case) will cause a lot of pain down your ass. I don't know more recent data. On the other hand, I didn't make a thorough search either. But I don't think that figures did change much since then:
I've heard that a lot of young men have been hiding in Russia since conscription "waves" started in 2014
not least due to the linguistic affinity between the languages, whether you like it or not.
"The linguistic affinity" between Polish and Ukrainian is much larger than between Ukrainian and Russian. Whether you like it or not
I would find it rather strange that a language from one regional subgroup (i.e. East Slavic languages, including Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian) would have more in common with a language from another subgroup (i.e. West Slavic languages, including Polish and Slovak). In any case, the Polish board is already here, so you should have no problem posting there, right? But I didn't find even a single post of yours in that board and quite a lot in the Russian one, lol. Still wanna talk about mutual intelligibility between the languages, or lack thereof?
And, please, stop bringing politics into a meta-technical thread.
No one talks about politics here except you and your buddy