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Post-war, Soviet control was reestablished, and Crimea was transferred to Ukraine in 1954. Ukraine became independent when the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. This started a period of transition to a market economy, in which Ukraine suffered an eight-year recession. [16]
Poland and Canada were the first countries to recognize Ukraine's independence, both on 2 December 1991. [12] [13] [14] On the same day (2 December) it was reported during the late-evening airing of the television news program Vesti that the President of the Russian SFSR, Boris Yeltsin, had recognized Ukraine's independence. [15]
The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine was marked on a 1991 USSR postage stamp. The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Декларація про державний суверенітет України, romanized: Deklaratsiia pro derzhavnyi suvernitet Ukrainy [dekɫɐˈrat͡sʲijɐ prɔ derˈʒau̯nei̯ sʊʋerenʲiˈtɛt ʊkrɐˈjine]) was adopted on July 16 ...
Conflict between these two countries predates 2022, though. Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and tensions between the country and Russia have flared through the decades ...
Ukraine country profile. January 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM [BBC] ... That same year, Russia seized the Crimean peninsula and armed insurgent groups to occupy parts of the east. The Russian army ...
On June 1, 1996, Ukraine became a non-nuclear nation, sending the last of the 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads it had inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia for dismantling. [38] Ukraine had committed to this by signing the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances in January 1994. [39] The country adopted its constitution on June 28, 1996 ...
The first partially free Parliament's vote after 45-year-long Soviet domination 966: ... Ukraine declares independence as the Ukrainian People ... the country became ...
As of 2022, before the Russian invasion, Ukrainian officials estimated the country had about 5% of the earth’s “critical raw materials,” according to comments made by Ukraine’s then deputy ...