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Operation Keelhaul was a forced repatriation of Soviet citizens and members of the Soviet Army in the West to the Soviet Union (although it often included former soldiers of the Russian Empire or Russian Republic, who did not have Soviet citizenship) after World War II.
Keelhauling (Dutch kielhalen; [1] "to drag along the keel") is a form of punishment and potential execution once meted out to sailors at sea. The sailor was tied to a line looped beneath the vessel, thrown overboard on one side of the ship, and dragged under the ship's keel , either from one side of the ship to the other, or the length of the ...
English: 1904 map showing separate administrative units, governorships,and geographic regions of Little Russia, South Russia and West Russia within the Russian Empire prior to Ukraine's independence 1917-1921.
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.
Two centuries later Guillaume le Vasseur, sieur de Beauplan became one of the more prominent cartographers working with Ukrainian data. His 1639 descriptive map of the region was the first such one produced, and after he published a pair of Ukraine maps of different scale in 1660, his drawings were republished [by whom?] throughout much of Europe. [2]
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Keelhauling, a form of corporal punishment used against sailors; Operation Keelhaul, the repatriation of Russian prisoners of war after World War II; Keelhaul (band), American band from Ohio; Keel-Haul (G.I. Joe), a character in the fictional G.I. Joe universe
Ukraine and Russia have been fighting in the streets of Chasiv Yar, a city in the Donetsk region, since July, when Kyiv’s troops withdrew from the eastern Kanal neighbourhood, establishing the ...