Ukraine
a republic in southeastern Europe: rich agricultural and industrial region. 223,090 sq. mi. (603,700 sq. km). Capital: Kyiv.
- Also called U·kra·i·na [oo-kruh-yee-nuh] /u krʌˈyi nə/ .
- Formerly U·krain·i·an So·vi·et So·cial·ist Re·pub·lic [yoo-krey-nee-uhn soh-vee-it soh-shuh-list ri-puhb-lik] /yuˈkreɪ ni ən ˈsoʊ viˌɪt ˈsoʊ ʃə lɪst rɪˈpʌb lɪk/ .
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So while Zelensky may not call out China as a threat, he knows that China can't be relied upon in a Russia-Ukraine crisis.
The president of Ukraine doesn't consider China a major geopolitical threat | Jonathan Swan | January 31, 2021 | AxiosIn fact, George Bush, senior Bush, actually made a speech, I think in Kiev, Ukraine, encouraging Ukraine not to pull away from the Soviet Union, not to become independent.
In 2004, Viktor Yushchenko campaigned against a Putin ally for the presidency of Ukraine.
Top chemical weapons watchdog group confirms Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a nerve agent | Alex Ward | October 7, 2020 | VoxIts cofounder and CEO, Sid Sijbrandij, lives in San Francisco and hails from the Netherlands, and the company was originally founded in Ukraine, the native home of its other cofounder, Dmitriy Zaporozhets.
Want to know how to WFH better? There’s a class for that | Michal Lev-Ram, writer | September 22, 2020 | FortuneTwo days later, Ukraine’s deputy energy minister announced that Ukraine had agreed to a major LNG deal with the Americans.
Rick Perry’s Ukrainian Dream | by Simon Shuster, TIME, and Ilya Marritz, WNYC | September 10, 2020 | ProPublica
Instead, spa hotels filled up with over 30,000 refugees from the war-troubled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
While the world fixated on Ukraine and Syria, a near-genocide ripped through central Africa, to little international fanfare.
At least 70 percent of the children were adopted from overseas, including Russia, China, Ethiopia and Ukraine.
Putin, because of his acts in Ukraine, he lost Russkiy Mir as a phenomenon.
Rebranding The Land of Mongol Warriors & Ivan The Terrible | Anna Nemtsova | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBy this time, however, the state of things in the Ukraine was so alarming that the new king had to hasten to the front.
They had come together to witness a sight never seen in Courtland before—the dread punishment of the Ukraine Cross.
Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) CrockettThere was much talk of getting food from the Ukraine, but this was probably used to keep up popular morale.
There were great delights at that time in the Ukraine for all valiant souls.
Hania | Henryk SienkiewiczSince that was my first time in the Ukraine, I saw the strangest deeds and strangest things.
Hania | Henryk Sienkiewicz
British Dictionary definitions for Ukraine
/ (juːˈkreɪn) /
a republic in SE Europe, on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov: ruled by the Khazars (7th–9th centuries), by Ruik princes with the Mongol conquest in the 13th century, then by Lithuania, by Poland, and by Russia; one of the four original republics that formed the Soviet Union in 1922; unilaterally declared independence in 1990, which was recognized in 1991. Consists chiefly of lowlands; economy based on rich agriculture and mineral resources and on the major heavy industries of the Donets Basin. Official language: Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken. Religion: believers are mainly Christian. Currency: hryvna. Capital: Kiev. Pop: 44 573 205 (2013 est). Area: 603 700 sq km (231 990 sq miles)
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Cultural definitions for Ukraine
[ (yooh-krayn, yooh-krayn) ]
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