Um, I don't need a map, and it's not the same. They don't even speak the same language, nor do they have the same alphabet.
I play basketball with a guy from Belarus.
"The Belarusians are very different than their Eastern neighbors historically, culturally and even genetically and that it is completely incorrect to speak about the Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians as if they were fraternal peoples. There are not but rather three absolutely different ethnic communities.”
https://mariuveren.wordpress.com/20...ent-cousins-let-alone-brothers-new-book-says/