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It has a pretty good claim. It's about 60% Russian by population and was (along with the rest of Ukraine) a part of Russia or the USSR from the 1700's until 1991.
It has no claim, who gives a fuck how many Russians live there. By that logic Luxembourg should be Portuguese.