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the Independence of Ukraine and the creation of an independent Ukrainian state – UKRAINE. The territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable. From this day forward, only the Constitution and laws of Ukraine are valid on the territory of Ukraine. This act becomes effective at the moment of its approval.
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 ] Subsequently however, the economy experienced a high increase in GDP growth until it plunged during the Great Recession . [ 17 ]
On June 1, 1996, Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation, sending the last of the 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads it had inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia for dismantling. [38] Ukraine had committed to this by signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in January 1994. [39] The country adopted its constitution on June 28, 1996 ...
From 2 December 1991 onwards, Ukraine was globally recognized by other countries as an independent state. [5] [6] [7] Also on 2 December, the President of the Russian SFSR Boris Yeltsin recognized Ukraine as independent.
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 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.
Ukraine also has made a substantial contribution to UN peacekeeping operations. During the Ukrainian crisis between 2013 and 2014, the UN adopted Resolution 68/262 on March 27, 2014, entitled Territorial integrity of Ukraine , by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly in response to the Russian annexation of Crimea .
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.