In 1922 it was made part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, part of the Soviet Union. The area, which has a majority ethnic Russian population today, is currently caught in a standoff ...

The Eastern European outlet Visegrád 24 posted a map on X (formerly Twitter) that shows the path the separatist fighters took inside Russian territory as they allegedly seized land. Newsweek ...

Russia and Ukraine were part of the 15 Soviet republics that made up the Soviet Union. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Ukraine declared independence on August 24. The map below ...