As GP said, 'English is spoken very widely in Ukraine', though he forgot to add 'now' and 'because someone needs to brigade subreddits and do damage control when UA does something stupid and exposes itself again'[0].
The whole '"the" VS lack of "the"' stems from the Russian/Ukranian language distinction somewhat resembling that 'the regions vs the country' in English.
But again, they do demand Russian speakers everywhere to use the language they claim is not even used in their own country[1] as they see it fits them.
And this is the reason they aren't bothered to demand the same treatment to the Netherlands, the Bahamas and whatever else, and that's why they don't bother with German or any other language - it's just self-esteem and identity issues absolutely, totally unrelevant to anyone in the world.
The whole '"the" VS lack of "the"' stems from the Russian/Ukranian language distinction somewhat resembling that 'the regions vs the country' in English.
But again, they do demand Russian speakers everywhere to use the language they claim is not even used in their own country[1] as they see it fits them.
And this is the reason they aren't bothered to demand the same treatment to the Netherlands, the Bahamas and whatever else, and that's why they don't bother with German or any other language - it's just self-esteem and identity issues absolutely, totally unrelevant to anyone in the world.
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1e67jp...
[1] 'not as a primary language, but to a secondary official status nonetheless' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002437