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Ukraine established a military administration for the territory under its control on 15 August 2024. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, there had been several smaller incursions into Russia by pro-Ukrainian forces. [38] Ukraine had supported these ground incursions, but denied direct involvement. [34]
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. [9]
International Legion (Ukraine) The International Legion of Territorial Defence of Ukraine, [ note 1] or the Ukrainian Foreign Legion, [ 8] is a military unit of the Territorial Defense Forces of Ukraine composed of foreign volunteers. It was created on 27 February 2022 by the Ukrainian government at the request of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ...
In Ukraine, the events are called "Volhynia tragedy". [228] [4] Coverage in textbooks may be brief and/or euphemistic. [229] Some Ukrainian historians accept the genocide classification, but argue that it was a "bilateral genocide" and that the Home Army was responsible for crimes against Ukrainian civilians that were equivalent in nature. [227]
The modern name Ukraintsi (Ukrainians) is derived from Ukraina (Ukraine), a name first documented in the Kievan Chronicle under the year 1187. The terms Ukrainiany (first recorded in the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle under the year 1268 [ a] ), Ukrainnyky, and even narod ukrainskyi (the Ukrainian people) were used sporadically before Ukraintsi ...
The Russo-Ukrainian War has seen foreign volunteers participate on both sides of the conflict. Most foreign fighters joined the conflict during one of two waves. The first wave happened from 2014 to 2019 during the War in the Donbas and consisted of approximately 17,241 foreign fighters. [ a] The second wave is considered by researchers to have ...
Myrotvorets or Mirotvorets (Ukrainian: Миротворець, pronounced [mɪroˈtwɔretsʲ]; lit. ' Peacemaker ') is a Ukrainian Kyiv-based [1] [2] [3] website that publishes a running list, and sometimes personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be "enemies of Ukraine", [7] or, as the website itself states, "whose actions have signs of crimes against ...
Ukraine is the official full name of the country, as stated in its declaration of independence and its constitution; there is no official alternative long name. From 1922 until 1991, Ukraine was the informal name of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic within the Soviet Union (annexed by Germany as Reichskommissariat Ukraine during 1941–1944).