 ::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 Ukrainians=Cossacks. Have a look at the Russian census for Kuban for that fact. Cossacks are presented as a separate subgroup of RUSSIANS.   