Källan till att fler än officiellt pratar och förstår polska i Ukraina är bl.a. Quora
Can a Ukrainian speaker understand Polish? - Quorahttps://www.quora.com › Can-a-Ukrainian-speaker-unders...
15 sep. 2020 — Yes, a lot of words sounds alike. Ukranians can understand about 70% of Polish. While having practice, they start fluent speaking in a month.
Men även detta tyder på att väldigt många i Ukraina pratar och förstår polska.
” Knowledge of Polish in Ukraine, as one would expect, is greatest in the western portions of the latter country, a region that was under Polish control until World War II, and among older Ukrainians rather than younger ones. But the level of knowledge of Polish among the young is higher than many might expect.”
https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/10/10/more-than-one-ukrainian-in-four-speaks-polish-new-survey-finds/
Och detta
”Re: Can I communicate in Polish in Ukraine?
just thought I'd add my two cents. I speak fluent Russian (Ukrainian too) and I'm Polish

Whenever people realize that I'm Polish (well, I can't get rid of my Polish accent, I know it), they switch to Polish, no matter what part of Ukraine I am visiting..Be it Lviv, be it Chernivtsi...
Perhaps places like Odessa or East Ukraine are the exceptions.
Frankly, I don't like it since I want to practice my Ukrainian as much as possible...yet, it's often very difficult in Lviv or other parts of West Ukraine.”