Which country is Ukraine from?

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

Ukraine, украина) is located in Eastern Europe, on the northern shore of the Black Sea and the Azov Sea. It borders Belarus in the north, Russia in the northeast, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary in the west and Romania and Moldova in the south. Its land area is 603,700 square kilometers, with a length of 1.300 kilometers from east to west and 900 kilometers from north to south.

The development of history

In the early Paleolithic period, there were traces of ancient human activities in present-day Ukraine. The word "Ukraine" first appeared in Historical Records of Ross (1 187), which means "the land on the border". 1240 The Mongolian Imperial Expeditionary Force (Badu) occupied Kiev. After that, the Mongolian Golden Horde, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poland successively ruled Ukraine.

1654, Ukrainian cossack leader Khmelnitski signed the Treaty of Peleyaslav with the Russian czar, and Ukraine and Russia formally merged. Since then, Ukraine has its own government, but it has not played a substantive role. 1922 joined the Soviet union (western Ukraine joined 1939). On July 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine adopted the Declaration on National Sovereignty of Ukraine. 1991On August 24th, Ukraine declared its independence.