Feb 12, 2022 · As Russian forces begin an all-out assault on Ukraine after months of troop buildup and failed diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and its European allies to head off conflict, the situation for Kyiv ...
Mar 21, 2023 · Crimea is a part of Ukraine that has close historical ties to Russia mainly because it was originally a part of the Russian Federation from 1783 to 1954. Then in 1954, the Crimean Peninsula was given to Ukraine by the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev. The historical ties between Crimea and Russia led many Ukrainians living in Crimea to have ...
- 9th century: Kyivan Rus. At some point in the late 9th century, a group of Norsemen calling themselves Rus (pronounced “Roos”) established control over the East Slavic communities in what is now Northwest Russia, then moved down the Dnieper River to make the city of Kyiv, in what is now Ukraine, their capital.
- 1654: Treaty of Pereiaslav (aka the Pereyaslav Agreement) Exploiting the late 14th-century decline of Mongol power, the Grand Principality of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (the latter eventually uniting with Poland) divided the former Rus lands.
- 1876: The Ems Act. In 1764, Catherine II (1729–96) abolished the Hetmanate to erase the last remnants of Ukrainian autonomy, and the Russian army destroyed the Cossack stronghold on the Dnieper.
- 1918: Ukrainian independence. With the collapse of the Russian monarchy in 1917 under the strain of war and political discord, patriotic Ukrainians established their coordinating body, the Central Rada (Council), which soon developed into a revolutionary parliament.
18 hours ago · Ukrainian drone attacks inside Russia have been growing in intensity in recent weeks, and the New York Times reported that US intelligence believes Ukraine was behind a drone attack on the Kremlin ...
As in Russia so in the Ukraine, warfare was literally "to the knife." Overall, the Russians and Ukrainians lost nearly 9 million troops and perhaps 20 million civilians -- one in each six Soviet ...