[pvg]

Kyev, capital of Ukraine, to Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, it’s about the same distance as San Francisco to Los Angeles.

One is a bit over 500 km and the other is about 1300 km. It's not meaningfully 'about the same distance'. It's an enourmous distance to hit only three European countries, though, you can do this in much less time/distance driving around nearby Trieste or Bratislava.

[Swizec]

Huh you’re right. Maybe I was remembering border to border air distance. Was looking this up a few years ago when friends were asking how far Ukraine was from my family.

Here’s a more fun context instead: after college I went on a roadtrip and covered 13 countries in about 4000 miles.

[pvg]

You started some sort of Europeshrinking conspiracy here, check out the sibling comment that's off by a similar factor but for area.