Ukrainian Woman explains Why Russians who live in Ukraine should be punished

it often gives an impression that there are some Russian-speaking "outsiders" in Ukraine who are not allowed to speak the language they want/like.

No, they were born in Ukraine, they grew up in Ukraine, they lived their whole life in Ukraine... speaking and thinking Russian. Some are bilingual, some - not.

The fact that the second language in question - Ukrainian - corresponds to the name of the country, makes it sound like it "has more rights". Allow me to demonstrate with a different example:

imagine that in Canada one language was announced "the right one" - English or French, whichever you'd like to imagine. And then the second language from this pair became the language that is being ousted, persecuted,