There seem to be alot of confusion about Ukraine. My understanding is that Ukraine and Russias relationship as nations is similar to the relationship of the Scandinavian nations(Denmark, Norway, Sweden). That Russia and Ukraine has shared roots, in the not to distant past(within last millennium, 1000-2000). Do you or anybody else know how Russia and Ukraine should be seen?
By proportion how many of the Ukrainian population supported the different factions/Ideologies during the russian civilwar?
Were it only soldiers who were resettled or were civilians that were aligned with these soldiers also resettled? Has the Polish and American involvement in this resettlement strengthened ties between the countries Poland, Ukraine and the United States?
The Scandinavian analogy isn't quite right for a few reasons and East Slavic nations are historically and linguistically more distinct. For example Ukrainian and Russian have a ~58% lexical similarity. For reference Italian, Spanish, and French all hover around 70-80%. This is mitigated somewhat since most everyone in Ukrainian can speak Russian to one degree or another, though this is due to russification efforts of the Soviet Union mostly. In 1653 during the signing of the Treaty of Pereyaslav, the Ukrainian Muscovite alliance against Poland, the Ukrainian and Muscovite delegations required translators as they could not understand each other. Many Ukrainian websites and movies are in Russian to attract people from all over the former Soviet Union. This includes many popular Ukrainian TV shows, even one, Слуга Народу, which is a comedy about a fictionalized
Ukrainian President has most of the dialogue in Russian. This goes the same for most of literature and video games too. This is all changing in the last few years, however.
The roots of Ukraine are in the tribe of Polianians (superficially unrelated to the West Slavic Polianians) who founded the city of Kyiv. The original leaders of the Kyivan Rus' were in Kyiv and the city of Novgorod came from Scandinavia but they had assimilated a little before the Christianizationfor the Rus'. Ukrainains and Russians have different ethnic differences.
In the old Kyivan Rus' the majority of religious centers, population, and the capitol city, Kyiv, were all located in Ukraine. Eventually the Rus' split up in the 11th and 12th centuries iirc. The city of Kyiv would change hands but essentially most of the time it, and the surrounding Ukrainian lands would be under the control of the Kingdom of Halych and Volyn' (Galicia Volhynia) based around the modern day city of L'viv, which was named after King Lev, though I can't remember their official capitol. It was only Galicia that resisted the Mongols fully and defended the city of Kyiv from their encroaching hordes.
At this point Ukrainian (or Ruthenian) people and Muscovite Russians were fairly distinct with the first references to the word Ukraine, which just means, literally, the country we are in, are recorded in the 11th century. Though the use of Ruthenia, Latin for Rus' was more common. Moscuvy and Russia itself were founded as distinct socio-political entities much later though they obviously have their roots in East Slavic civilization too, their connection to the Kyivan Rus' is not as clear as they were originally of a different tribe and not a part of the Kyivan Rus' until Prince Svyatoslav conquered them in retribution for killing his father when he came to collect tribute.
During the collapse of the Russian Empire most Ukrainians supported, nominally, the Ukrainian Peoples Republic or the Western Ukrainian Peoples Republic. They were 2 governments but legally in union, one controlled former Austro-Hungarian territory in Galicia. The anarchists, and bolsheviks were a minority though both had significant bases of support among some peasants and industrial workers respectivly.
I think it was both that were resettled. Historically it was a spot of good relations for Ukrainians and Poles though recently that isn't as true.