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kgeistlast Sunday at 9:36 AM0 repliesview on HN

There's a bunch of phonetical differences:

  rus. Volk ~ ukr. Vovk
  rus. Aleksey ~ ukr. Oleksiy
Different suffixes:

   rus. Tarasov ~ ukr. Tarasenko, Tarasiuk
Ukrainian surnames often have no suffixes at all (more often than in Russia):

  rus. Melnikov vs. ukr. Melnyk
  rus. Kovalev vs. ukr. Koval
Although it doesn't say anything about a person's nationality for certain because of migrations.