First of all, it has been almost common sense in the manosphere that marriage is a bad deal for men, (for the many reasons that I will not bother elaborate) and I agree with that, no matter the origins of the woman.
But, since this wife hunting theme is very common, not only in the Ukraine thread, but also in other threads dedicated to this matter, here goes my take on what are the most important things in order to have a successful relationship with a FSU woman, from the perspective of a westerner.
In this order:
1) Realistic expectations
This is the most important point, and Jimkur nailed it right on the spot. A male 4 or 5 will only be milked by a russkoe devushka on the range of 7 and above. Playing in his league or improve himself is the way to go. One thing is to get her in bed, other thing is putting her in lockdown, and these women learn the arts of seduction and getting what they want from men since very young age.
I reinforce the notion that men scale is measured by looks, personality (game included) and money, the order of the previous varies from place to place, and in FSU looks is not the first...
Beware that many men in the west have wife's who are inferior to them, so getting an equal match is not bad at all.
Also take note that pretty girls are not so desperate to leave as one might think, there are many guys with money and connections who can maintain an harem, and the redneck local guy has much more in common with her than any foreigner. No foreign player is a match for a local guy, less to a local player.
2) Command of the language
Well, without proper communication it will be hard to have a good connection. Some guys can shoot for the ones who speak good English, but again lets be realistically here. In a world dominated by such a strong russian culture and language (russkoe mir) why would a village girl (Mikolayev comes to my mind, but also applies to a big city one) invest so much in English language skills when this would take her precious time to work a few extra hours and earn some much needed and scarce money? More often than not, although not a rule, the ones that dominate it are the ones with the most mileage, the ones who "modeled" abroad, the ones who work with anastasiadate.com, the ones who frequently travel abroad with foreign sponsors or the ones who are simply pros or semi-pros...
3) Time
Yes, I have been learning that finding the better girls is not in bars, clubs or online. The ones who are worth to commit, and this is a pattern not only from FSU but around the world, are the conservative ones, who drink only at home with her man, who cook wonderful meals, and who almost never complaint about unmeaningful things. These girls are not club rats or damaged online hamsters...you need time to find them, and more often than not is through social circle, wich is only doable with time. Again this is not a rule, and of course is open to debate. Daygame or work can be also good hunting grounds, or even in clubs or online I believe there are good girls, it is just they are much fewer.
4) Money
You can not expect to wife hunt if you are broken. Again, between a broken foreigner and broken Ukranian, they will go for the broken Ukranian, the same between an ugly foreigner and an ugly Ukranian, with the same conditions they will go with the ugly Ukranian.
If a guy wants to take her to the west, he has to give her a good quality of life, under penalty that she flies back home, or she jumps to next one with more money who hit on her...
5) Common sense
Social retards and complete failures back in the west will have a hard time dealing with russkoes, whether woman or man. It is a harsh land, with many wars in its history, and badly distributed resources. Idiots should be punished by being that way. Citing Ivan Drago from Rocky IV "If he dies, he dies".
6) Knowledge of the culture
It will be easier to connect if a guy knows some history, music, food, literature. Those things are valued, and your SMV goes up some points. It can bring a spark in her eye and she will be proud that her foreign man can karaoke sing that Gregoriy Leps love song, knows who was Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Stepan Badera, Ivan the Terrible, Zhukov or Yuri Gagarin, can serve some salo, vodka and ogurets and has read Bulgakov or Tolstoi. It is even better if he genuinely likes the culture. She will be willing to raise a family with that man, who will not be an obstacle in the fact that eastern values will be passed on to her children.
7) Cultural awareness
They do not smile too much while on the street, yet they are the most wonderfully happy people inside four walls with friends. Once you are invited to someone’s house, you are one of them and will be treated in the best possible way. If there is only one beer in the fridge, he will give it to you. He will even open that old bottle of Moldovan Cognac… Threat them the same way.
8) Knowledge of local connections between man and woman
Their relationships are not the same of western ones. Men command, woman obey. That is how things work, and they woman are fine with it. Watch and observe the local couples. Normally, he is a brute gentleman, he can open the doors for her and dressing her coat with the left hand, and he can smack her face and berate at her for absolutely no apparent reason with the right hand. Tough men provide, and if he gives, he will enjoy the best sex, no such thing has a “honey my head hurts tonight”. Learn to think like them, learn to act like them.
Hope this will be helpful for you wife hunters in Ukraine