Up until 2014, Ukraine’s borders had remained unbreeched since it gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 ... Looking at a map of Ukraine before February 2014, it is a stark reminder ...
LONDON/KYIV >> Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia’s Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are ...
Ukraine’s borders were set when it gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed. It borders Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to the west; and Romania and Moldova ...