I personally am fine with "Russo-Ukrainian" as historically the second listed name is more likely to be the winner. When I was a very young war historian I actually thought that the names of the wars always listed the winner last (rather than being a product of media of the time). I think I thought it was similar to how the home team in a sport is listed at the bottom when showing scores (from baseball batting order)
From the below it was a reasonable suspicion when I only had partial information ("winners" in bold)
Austro-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
Russo-Turkish War
Sino-Japanese War
Spanish-American War
Anglo-Boer War
Russo-Japanese War
Arab-Israeli Wars
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