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Topographic map of Ukraine, with borders, cities and towns. Ukraine is the second-largest European country, after Russia, and the largest country entirely in Europe. Lying between latitudes 44° and 53° N, and longitudes 22° and 41° E., it is mostly in the East European Plain. Ukraine covers an area of 603,550 square kilometres (233,030 sq ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War (outline) Map of Ukraine as of 7 August 2024 (details): Continuously controlled by Ukraine Currently occupied by Russia Formerly occupied by Russia Date 24 February 2022 – present (2 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Location Ukraine, Russia, Black Sea Status Ongoing (list of engagements · territorial control · timeline of ...
Diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Germany originally were established in 1918 as between Ukrainian People's Republic and German Empire, but were discontinued soon thereafter due to occupation of Ukraine by the Red Army. Current relations were resumed in 1989 at a consulate level, and in 1992 as full-scale diplomatic mission.
The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Russification policies and compulsory military service in the Russian Empire, large groups of Germans from Russia emigrated to the Americas (mainly Canada, the United States, Brazil and Argentina ...
After 1867 it was part of the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary, until the dissolution of the monarchy at the end of World War I in 1918. Siege of Przemyśl in 1915. During the First World War, Galicia saw heavy fighting between the forces of the Russian Empire and the Central Powers, on the Eastern Front of World War I.
On Friday, seven months after it began its brutal invasion, President Vladimir Putin annexed four Ukrainian regions — the largest takeover of territory in Europe since World War II.
The Pale of Settlement [a] was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 ( de facto until 1915) in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, [1] was mostly forbidden. Most Jews were still excluded from residency in a number of cities ...
Militant organisations: Atesh, Popular Resistance of Ukraine Donetsk People's Republic, Luhansk People's Republic (Annexed by Russia in 2022) People: Ukrainians, Pro-Ukrainian Russians in Ukraine. De jure entities within Ukraine: Donetsk Oblast, Luhansk Oblast. Proposed: reunification with Ukraine [208] Advocacy organisations: Yellow Ribbon