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Ukraine, with its rich natural resources and strategic location, was a key focus of these plans. Ukraine became a major center for heavy industry, particularly in coal mining, steel production, and machine building. Cities like Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), and Stalino (now Donetsk) were transformed into industrial hubs. The rapid ...
Poland and Canada were the first countries to recognize Ukraine's independence, both on 2 December 1991. [12] [13] [14] On the same day (2 December) it was reported during the late-evening airing of the television news program Vesti that the President of the Russian SFSR, Boris Yeltsin, had recognized Ukraine's independence. [15]
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine was marked on a 1991 USSR postage stamp. The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Декларація про державний суверенітет України, romanized: Deklaratsiia pro derzhavnyi suvernitet Ukrainy [dekɫɐˈrat͡sʲijɐ prɔ derˈʒau̯nei̯ sʊʋerenʲiˈtɛt ʊkrɐˈjine]) was adopted on July 16 ...
Ukraine gained independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and then veered between seeking closer integration with Western Europe and being drawn into the orbit of Russia, which ...
With this, Ukraine's independence was formalized de jure and recognised by the international community. [citation needed] On 2 December 1991, Poland and Canada were the first countries to recognize Ukraine's independence. [37] The history of Ukraine between 1991 and 2004 was marked by the presidencies of Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma. This ...
Topographic map of Ukraine with borders and cities. 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 mi), with ...
Ukraine became independent from Russia as the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1917. Divided in 1921 between the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Union, [2] the remaining western portion of Ukraine was further annexed by the Soviet Union as part of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact [3] and formalised by the 1945 Potsdam Conference.
Independence Day of Ukraine (Ukrainian: День Незалежності України, romanized: Den' Nezaležnosti Ukrajiny [dɛnʲ nezɐˈɫɛʒnɔsʲtʲi ʊkrɐˈjine]) is a state holiday in modern Ukraine, [nb 1] celebrated on 24 August [4] in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence of 1991.