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The country borders Belarus in the north, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in the west, Moldova and Romania in the south-west, and Russia in the east. [7] The total geographic area of Ukraine is 603,700 square kilometers (233,100 sq mi). Ukraine has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 147,318 km 2 (56,880 sq mi) in the Black Sea.
Ukraine claimed to have shot down five Russian Su-25s over the last ten days over Donetsk Oblast. 23 October. Two people were killed by Russian shelling in Kherson Oblast. In Kherson city, transportation and food factories were hit. Ukraine's air defense systems destroyed six Russian drones and a cruise missile.
In March and April 2021, prior to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces began massing thousands of personnel and military equipment near Russia's border with Ukraine and in Crimea, representing the largest mobilisation since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, escalating the Donbas War that began in 2014 into the Russo-Ukrainian War.Twenty-one months later, on 20 November 2023, Ukraine had cumulatively received over $44 billion in materiel aid from the United States and over $35 billion from other allies on a month-to-month basis.
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine ( Ukrainian: Православна церква України, romanized : Pravoslavna tserkva Ukrainy; [14] [15] OCU ), also called Ukrainian Orthodox Church, [16] is an Eastern Orthodox church in Ukraine. It is one of 16 autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches, 15th listed in diptych.
Following the failed August Coup in Moscow on 19–21 August 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine declared independence on 24 August 1991, which renamed the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to Ukraine. The result of the 1991 independence referendum held on 1 December 1991 proved to be a surprise.
Donors. The donation of military aid was coordinated at monthly meetings in the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, throughout the war.A first meeting took place between 41 countries on 26 April 2022, and the coalition comprised 54 countries (all 30 member states of NATO and 24 other countries) at the latest meeting on 14 February 2023.
