How did the two countries, once tied together by the Soviet Union, get to this point? These are the major events that led to the crisis, along with some key moments since the war began three years ago. Next:Dec. 1, 1991: Ukraine Becomes Independent...
Its August 1991 declaration of independence not only changed the European balance of power, but helped accelerate the collapse of the Soviet Union - leaving the United States as the only real superpower. For US foreign policy, the dissolution of its traditional military rival and Ukraine's ...
China cannot be a mediator in the war in Ukraine as it leans too much toward the invader Russia but it could play the role of facilitator to reach a peace deal with Moscow, the European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, said. "China does not distinguish between aggressor and victim of...
Ukraine, which had been part of the Soviet Union for much of the 20th century, declared its independence in 1991. Since then, the country has been establishing closer ties with the West but is not a member of NATO or the European Union. This story is part ofWar in Ukraine, CNET's cov...
Ms Baksheieva, who grew up in the Soviet Union, has harsh words for anyone calling for a compromise with Russia to end the war. "Have you ever lived in an unfree country? Have you ever experienced that? Because [freedom] is like air, you don't realise it until you don't have ...
Soviet Ukraine and Poland western Ukraine was split-off and incorporated into Poland while the larger central and eastern parts formed a Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in March 1919, that later became a founding republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the Soviet Union in December...
Russia has long complained that it was tricked by Western nations at the end of the Cold War into believing that NATO, the Western military alliance, would not expand eastward toward its territory. Analysts say, however, that the Soviet Union was never offered any formal guarantee on limits to...
Museum of Strategic Missile Forces is unique museum in the World which allows you to visit top-secret Soviet Union facilities related to nuclear missiles of mass destruction - all equipment, surface and underground facilities are fully preserved in the same condition in which they were at a secret...
◆George Kennan, late American diplomat and observer of the Soviet Union, wrote in The New York Times in 1997 that "expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-Cold War era". https://world.huanqiu.com/article/46wKCk9TxKL ◆Former US Senator Bil...
As Ukrainian MP Viktoria Voytsitska said in 2018, literally all categories of workers were thinking of leaving Ukrainian NPPs, from steam engine drivers and riggers to engineers who controlled reactors and other high-tech equipment. South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant. © Wikipedia Provocation ...