Is it common for Eastern Ukrainians to get barely any Ukrainian DNA?
Both me and my parents were born in Kharkiv, my paternal grandfather is from Poltava Oblast', grandmother is from Belgorod and maternal grandparents were both born in Kharkiv.
If anything, I expected to see more Russian and some German DNA because my paternal grandmother is of German origin. My mother also passed to me her naturally tanned skin, so I expected to see some closer Southern European or even non-European ancestry, but I'm not even sure if can 4% affect your skin colour. Actually, knowing the origins of our darker skin was the reason I took the test, but now I don't even know which one of my parents is parent 1 or parent 2.
I know all my great-grandparents and even many 2x great-grandparents, but we don't know about any Poles in our family or have any Polish last names. We have no known ancestors from Western Ukraine either, let alone everything else on the list.