Ukrainians are good people.
Igor Sikorsky, who was born in Kiev, Ukraine, came to the US and invented helicopter.
Theodosius Dobzhansky, also from Ukraine, came to the US and amended the theory of evolution with modern evolutionary synthesis.
Sergei Korolev, also from Ukraine, create the first artificial satellite - Sputnik.
Why don't we just add Ukraine to the family of States of the United States of America? The population of Ukraine is roughly the same as population of California. Ukraine has a lot of coal, arable land, some old Soviet tank factory in Kharkov and Mediterranean-style beaches on Crimea peninsula.