Located in eastern Europe, Ukraine is the second-largest country on the European continent after Russia.
ROME, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which came at a time when economies worldwide are still grappling with the negative effects of COVID-19, poses a new challenge to global food security, an official with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ...
In the period of Polish rule the conditions of thepeasantrysteadily deteriorated. The free peasantry that had still existed into the late Lithuanian period underwent rapidenserfment, while serf obligations themselves became more onerous (seeserfdom). Peasant unrest increased toward the end of the 16th...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Donetsk and Luhansk are joining Russia with the same administrative borders that existed before a conflict erupted there in 2014 between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces. But he added that the borders of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson are still undecided. ...
The chairman of the Ukrainian Security Service Valentin Nalivaichenko has said that the famine, known in Ukraine as Holodomor, was enforced by representatives of Ukrainian authorities and the punishing bodies that existed on Ukrainian territory at that time.“As for the third party – Russia or...
At present there are sixteen stations in the Ukraine, three times more than existed before the revolution in all Russia. Every town with a population over 50,000 has its own station of first medical help. The Odessa station from the day of its foundation, April 20, 1903, has been open...
He adds that “for very long periods” Russia and Ukraine were “part of the same state.” “On the other hand,” Brain says, “Kiev was the capital of its own state before Moscow existed.” Ukraine spent long stretches outside Russian control, and, according to Brain, “Ukrainians ...
And then just a final word on the Russia China relationship as it existed before this crisis. I've noticed that I think a lot of it is sort of generational as well because how else can you explain all the different analytic takes and so on on what that relationship is like. I think ...
Ukrainian investigators identified him as a former militant who fought against Ukraine’s Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine before Russia’s full-scale invasion began. The saboteur was a member of “terrorist groups” and the Russian military intelligence apparatus before the war, according...
On Thursday, Zelensky addressed citizens saying that the history of Ukraine’s statehood can be described in one sentence: “We existed, exist and will exist!” He also told lawmakers that Ukraine’s resistance against Russia will be remembered. “We will become not a new legend of heroic...