Areas of southern and eastern Ukraine are occupied and controlled by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the ongoing invasion. In Ukrainian law, they are defined as the "temporarily occu
Pro-EU demonstration in Kyiv, 27 November 2013, during the Euromaidan protests
Pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk on 8 March 2014, as the Kremlin deliberately stoked separatist sentiment among some local residents.
Russian-armed separatist militants in Donetsk, May 2018
Propaganda poster of grandmother with red flag in Saky, Crimea, 9 May 2022
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Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slova
Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
…Areas of southern and eastern Ukraine are occupied and controlled by Russia as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian war and the ongoing invasion. In Ukrainian law, they are defined as the…
Early Indo-European migrations from the Pontic steppes of present-day Ukraine and Russia
The furthest extent of Kievan Rus', 1054–1132
Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky established an independent Cossack state after the 1648 uprising against Poland
Polish troops enter Kyiv in May 1920 during the Polish–Soviet War. Following the Peace of Riga signed on 18 March 1921, Poland took control of modern-day western Ukraine while Soviets took control of eastern and central Ukraine