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The devastation of country estates put a halt to large scale economic activity which had depended on agriculture, forestry, brewing and small scale industries. Paradoxically, the Southern Kresy (present-day Ukraine) was famous for its fertile soil and was known as the "bread basket of Europe".
It is located 2 km from the border with Ukraine, in Rîbnița District. Cobasna is the site of a Russian , and formerly Soviet , ammunition depot known as the Cobasna ammunition depot . It has been referred to as the largest in Eastern Europe .
The estate's level of luxury and the reconstruction of a road to it spawned controversy within Ukraine. [ 26 ] [ 15 ] During Yanukovych’s presidency, the estate became a controversial [ 27 ] symbol of the increasingly authoritarian nature of his rule, as well as a symbol of the excess and corruption that defined his government and Ukrainian ...
In Dolyna, there used to be 500 residents. The picturesque village, near the border of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, was one of many in the area that became fierce battlegrounds in the ...
At the eastern region of Black Sea to the south of the Kerch Strait the Ukrainian Economic Zone adjoins the Russian Economic Zone in Black Sea. From that point starts the Russia - Ukraine border of territorial water which stretches northward for 22.5 km (14.0 mi) towards the southern edge of the Kerch Strait.
Sudzha is located next to a Russian gas terminal, a key point for supplying gas from Russia, via Ukraine, to Europe. This has prompted speculation that one of Kyiv’s goals could be to curtail a ...
The Polesian Lowland is a lowland in the southwestern portion of the East European Plain in the drainage basins of several rivers including the Dnieper, Pripyat and Desna.It stretches along the Belarus–Ukraine border.
As Russian forces make slow progress in eastern Ukraine, Ukraine's military stages a surprise cross-border attack.