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Feb 12, 2022 · Since breaking from the Soviet Union, Ukraine has wavered between the influences of Moscow and the West, surviving scandal and conflict with its democracy intact. Now it faces an existential threat.
- Becky Sullivan
May 25, 2023 · The territories that make up modern-day Russia and Ukraine have been contested throughout history, so in the past, parts of Ukraine were part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Other parts of Ukraine were once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Poland, among others.
Feb 22, 2022 · Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union before it collapsed at the end of the Cold War in 1991, and it borders Russia to its east. Mr. Putin has described Russians and Ukrainians as “one people, a ...
Feb 14, 2023 · Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has set alight the bloodiest conflict in Europe since World War II. A former Soviet republic, Ukraine had deep cultural, economic, and political ...
Feb 25, 2022 · Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t been coy about why he invaded Ukraine: He says it isn’t a “real” country. He claims Ukraine is a fiction, created by communist Russia. As Vox’s ...
Feb 24, 2022 · Ukraine became the second-most populous republic of the Soviet Union – and the second-most economically important, thanks to its fertile farmlands and key Black Sea ports.
Ukraine - Soviet Union, Independence, Revolution: From prehistoric times, migration and settlement patterns in the territories of present-day Ukraine varied fundamentally along the lines of three geographic zones. The Black Sea coast was for centuries in the sphere of the contemporary Mediterranean maritime powers. The open steppe, funneling from the east across southern Ukraine and toward the ...
