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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.
Post-war, Soviet control was reestablished, and Crimea was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. Ukraine became independent when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. This started a period of transition to a market economy, in which Ukraine suffered an eight-year recession. [16]
Following the successful independence referendum, Yeltsin's only way to preserve the Soviet Union would have been to use massive force against Ukraine. However, Yeltsin chose not to and instead recognised the dissolution of the Soviet Union, [23] and joined the Belovezha Accords and the Alma-Ata Protocol. [24]
In 1945, Ukraine was made one of the founding members of the United Nations even though it was part of the Soviet Union. In 1954 the Crimean Oblast was transferred from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine became an independent state, formalized with a referendum.
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.
The referendum followed the Declaration of State Sovereignty by the republic's parliament on 16 July 1990 as sovereign republic within the Soviet Union in line with the results. [1] In August 1991, with the New Union Treaty having not been adopted by the Soviet Union, a withdrawal from the USSR was proposed.
Ukraine has fought back courageously against Mr Putin’s warped bid to restore territory lost to Moscow with the collapse of the Soviet Union and has continued to defy the odds by defending ...
Not official until the formal disestablishment of the Soviet Union. August 24, 1991 Soviet Union Ukraine: Independence restored after Soviet rule. Initial establishment in Ukraine. Not official until the formal disestablishment of the Soviet Union. August 27, 1991 Soviet Union Moldova: Independence restored after Soviet rule.