Ukraine: A short history of its creation

Ukraine: A short history of its creation

TOPIC: Geography

Context-  According to Putin, modern Ukraine was entirely and fully created by Russia, more specifically the Bolshevik, communist Russia.

Concept-

About Ukraine:

• Ukraine is in the east of Europe, and is bound by Russia to its northeast, east, and southeast, and the Black Sea in the south. In the southwest, west, and north.
• Ukraine shares borders, in the clockwise direction, with Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, and Belarus.
• It is the largest country in Europe after Russia itself, with an area of 603,550 sq km, or about 6% of the continent.
• Ukraine is, of course, dwarfed by Russia, which sprawls over almost 4 million sq km and 40% of Europe.
• Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe in terms of gross domestic product and gross national income per capita.
• It has deposits of iron ore and coal, and exports corn, sunflower oil, iron and iron products, and wheat.
• India is Ukraine’s largest export destination in the Asia Pacific region. The country’s major export to India is sunflower oil, followed by inorganic chemicals, iron and steel, plastics, and chemicals.
• Ukraine’s major import from India is pharmaceutical products.
• Early history of Ukraine: Modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus all trace their cultural ancestry to the KyivanRus’.
• Post world war I, In 1922, Ukraine became part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
• In 1991, the USSR was dissolved. Demands for independence had been growing in Ukraine for a couple of years previously, and in 1990, over 300,000 Ukrainians created a human chain in support of freedom, and the so-called Granite Revolution of students sought to prevent the signing of a new agreement with the USSR.
• On August 24, 1991 the parliament of Ukraine adopted the country’s Act of Independence. Subsequently, Leonid Kravchuk, head of the parliament, was elected Ukraine’s first President.
• In December 1991, the leaders of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine formally dissolved the Soviet Union and formed the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). However, Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, never ratified the accession, so Ukraine was legally never a member of the CIS.