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UA. Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.
Ukraine [a] is a country in Eastern Europe.It is the second-largest European country [b] after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. [c] [10] It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland and Slovakia to the west; Hungary, Romania and Moldova [d] to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast.
Below is a list of European countries and dependencies by area in Europe. [1] As a continent , Europe's total geographical area is about 10 million square kilometres. [ 2 ] Transcontinental countries are ranked according to the size of their European part only, excluding Greece due to the not clearly defined boundaries of its islands between ...
[79] [84] It was described as the biggest attack on a European country and the first full-scale war in Europe [85] since the Second World War. Russia launched a simultaneous ground and air attack. [86] [87] Russian missiles struck targets throughout Ukraine, [88] and Russian troops invaded from the north, east, and south. [89]
She said Russia had made the "largest military mobilization for decades in Europe", and was trying "to paint Ukraine and Western countries as the aggressors to fabricate a pretext for attack". [493] [494] [495] Russia's ambassador to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, accused the West of "hysterics" and of "whipping up tensions" over Ukraine.
The transcontinental country, which spans Asia and Europe, has a total surface area of 17.1 million square kilometers – Russia consists of land area for the most part, only about 4% of total ...
Operation Barbarossa (‹See Tfd› German: Unternehmen Barbarossa; Russian: Операция Барбаросса, romanized: Operatsiya Barbarossa) was the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany and many of its Axis allies, starting on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II.
Between 0.3 and 1 million. Less than 0.3 million. This list of European countries by population comprises the 51 countries and 5 territories and dependencies in Europe, broadly defined, including Cyprus, Kazakhstan, Turkey, and the countries of the Caucasus. The most populous European country is Russia, with a population of over 144 million.