The Ukraine became part of Russia in 1793, reportedly gaining independence in 1991. Thought to be due to public pressure. According to reports since 1994 the Ukraine has agreed to the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty as a nuclear free nation.
Amid current news of a russian military build up on the Ukraine border, two u.s. naval ships were said to be planning to sail to the Black Sea on April 14th and 15th until 4th and 5th May. The u.s. have said they will deploy additional troops in Germany, contrary to Donald Trump’s plans to withdraw from europe.
Crimea was captured by Russia in 2014. The same year, protests from the people of the Donbas region of the Ukraine against the government reportedly resulted in Russia waging a political and military campaign in the area, said to be ongoing. Crimea is the subject of an ongoing dispute, being described as an independent republic and federal region of Russia by Russia, and part of the Ukraine by the Ukraine.
Under Gorbachev’s reforms of 1989 the enforced migration in 1944 of Taters living in Crimea, a peninsula which spans the Ukraine and Turkey was pronounced illegal. Since the soviet dissolution of 1991, russian policy reportedly consists of pro western factions, slavophiles and imperialists. Slavophilia was said to have existed in Poland, Serbia Croatia and Czechoslavakia. They are often collectivist rather than individualist cultures though there are exceptions.
According to statistics, from 1993 to 2014 the Ukraine population decreased by 6.6 million. The nuclear accident in Chernobyl, and aftermath were probably major factors. Reportedly the Ukraine president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in 2014, said to be following a decision not to sign a Ukraine-EU association agreement which was eventually signed in 2016. Though the Ukraine is said to be one of the largest grain exporters in the world, along with Moldova it is reportedly the poorest country in Europe, and very corrupt. Since their independence in 1991 they are said to have played a significant role in u.n. military operations and are known to have had controversial links with a u.s. company which was reported to be selling Iraqi oil.