Ukraine

Key Facts About Ukraine

• •Ukraine is the largest country located entirely within Europe.
• •The country has some of the world's most fertile agricultural land (chernozem).
• •Ukraine was the second most powerful Soviet Republic before independence in 1991.
• •Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986, is located in Ukraine.
• •Ukraine is under ongoing Russian invasion that began with the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and escalated in 2022.

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