No seriously two years of war and nobody even knows if we're using the The.
Fine. Are people who live there Ukrainians or The Ukrainians?
The "correct" way now is without the "the." Some keep saying "the" to piss off someone. I don't know why they keep changing it, probably to signal something to Russia.
More on spelling:
"There is also some debate as to whether using the double “y” is an act of defiance against the Russians by Zelensky.
To understand that, consider how the capital of Ukraine is spelled. “Kyiv” is the transliteration in English of the Ukrainian spelling of the nation’s capital. “Kiev” is based on the Russian spelling of the city’s name.
“Kyiv means that you transliterate into English from the original Ukrainian name of the Ukrainian capital. By doing so you recognize the fact that it is Ukrainian. By not doing so you question the fact that it is a Ukrainian city,” Dr. Yuri Shevchuk, a member of the department of Slavic languages at Columbia University, told The Forward earlier this month."