1650-1917: Some or all of present Ukraine under control of Russian Empire. 1918-1945: Major political struggles within Ukraine over the workers’ 1917 revolution in Russia. A significant part of Ukraine joins newly formed Soviet Union. With the bureaucratization of the...
The Ukrainian people have been facing a major invasion by the Russian military with bombing and armored ground forces. The horrific situation has already killed thousands of people, and more than one million have fled. As cities are being bombarded, people have taken...
Russia has sent its powerful military forces to invade and occupy Ukraine. The U.S. and its European allies have responded, as they said they would, with economic sanctions against Russia. The actions of the rulers of all these countries has nothing to do with the...
Right now, it seems like every day U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin trade threats over Ukraine. On Jan. 24, Biden said he was putting 8,500 U.S. troops on so-called “heightened alert,” meaning that they are immediately ready for deployment...
For months, the U.S. and Russia have been escalating tensions over the future of Ukraine – each blaming the other for fanning the flames of conflict. There have been multiple attempts by both the U.S. and Russia to come to some agreement, but talks continue to...
