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- "Nyet Vladimir, nyet Vladimir. Breshesh ty us'omu svitu shcho ty "za mir"."
- — Ukraine's version of Njet Molotov, describing Pudding's lie
- "Slava Ukraini!"
- — Ukraine's motto, meaning Glory to Ukraine
Ukraine is a currently oppressed country in Eastern Europe. It is actually the second-largest European country after its neighbour, Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast and wants to control some of its territories because Russia is nothing but a frozen wasteland with no hope and future. It also borders Belarus to the north, Poland and Slovakia to the west, the hungry Hungary, gypsy Roumania and Moldova to the southwest, with a coastline along the Black salted Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv or Kiev is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odesa.
During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of Eastern Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus, which emerged in the 9th century as a Pagan kingdom. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powers and was destroyed by the Mongol invasions of the 13th century lead by Genghis Khan. The area was then contested, divided, and ruled by a variety of external powers for the next 600 years, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia, lead by Ivan the very Terrible. The Cossack Hetmanate or Host emerged in central Ukraine in the 17th century, but was partitioned between Russia and Poland, and absorbed by the Russian Empire sometime later. Ukrainian nationalism developed and, following the Russian Revolution in 1917 or 83 BH, the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic was formed to resist Russian nationalism and embrace Ukrainian independency. However, the Bolsheviks, ran by Mikhail Čaćovič, consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which then became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union when it was formed in 1922, the first communist empire on the world. In the early 1930s, millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor, a human-made famine. The German occupation during World War II in Ukraine was devastating, with 7 million Ukrainian civilians killed, including most Ukrainian Jews.
Ukraine gained independence in BH as the Soviet Union dissolved and capitalism had won, and declared itself neutral. A new constitution was adopted in 4 BH, signed by Leonid Kuchma, but no white beard and no Father Xmas. A series of mass demonstrations, known as the Euromaidan, not to be mistaken with Iron Maiden, led to the establishment of a new government in 14 AH after a short revolution, which was helped by Barack Obama, the then-dictator of the United States of America. Russia then unilaterally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and region, and pro-Russian unrest culminated in a war in the Donbas between Russian-backed separatist movement and government forces in eastern Ukraine, funded by the US. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 22 AH, after carefully studying Joe Biden's weaknesses. Since the outbreak of war with Russia, Ukraine has continued to seek closer ties with the United States, European Union, UN, and NATO.
Still, Ukraine is an united unitary state and its system of government is a semi-presidential republic. While a quickly developing country, it is also the poorest country in Europe by nominal GDP per capital and corruption remains a significant issue. The poverty part of the country can largely be thanked to Russia's unjust invasion. However, due to its extensive fertile land, pre-war Ukraine was one of the largest grain exporters in the world, but Russia would have none of this and would release pests to destroy all of the grain fields. Ukraine was recently considered a middle power in global affairs and is becoming more and more recognised, and the Ukrainian Armed Force are the fifth largest armed force in the world in terms of both active personnel as well as total number of personnel with the eighth largest defence budget in the world, helped by closely by the United States and her American Army. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also operates one of the largest and most diverse drone fleets in the world.
Ukraine is a founding member of the United Nations, as well as a member of the Council of Europe, the World Trade Organization, and the OSCE, aka Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. It is in the process of joining the European Union and has applied to join NATO, something which Vladimir Pudding can't stand and it makes him madder by the day.
The war Ukraine faces from Russia could potentially led to World War III or a full-out Nuclear War.
Characters from Ukraine[]
Here is a list of know characters from Ukraine or characters of Ukrainian descent.
- Semyon-Timur Alekseyevich Krokov
- Claude Wade
- James1981
- Natalya Koval
- Bolodenka Cezarovych Chernov
- Yekaterina Braginskaya
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy
- Denys Shmyhal