A short history of Russia and Ukraine Seven maps that illustrate Vladimir Putin’s distortion of history. Share. ... (see map 1). Its centre was Kyiv, now Ukraine’s capital.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said an old map proves Ukraine isn't a real country. But the document in fact shows the area near Kyiv labeled as "Ukraine." Putin has cited his much-criticized ...

This map published by the Institute for the Study of War on November 30, 2023 shows the battlefield situation in Donetsk Oblast following Ukraine's summer counteroffensive.

Vladimir Putin attempted to deny Ukraine’s existence this week by citing a 400-year-old map that clearly had Ukraine marked as a country, RadarOnline.com has learned.. In a concerning ...

Editor's note: This story was originally published on February 24, 2022. Ukraine has been invaded by Russia in a pre-dawn attack. Up to 190,000 Russian troops were positioned near Ukraine's ...

Ukrainian soldiers walk through the destroyed city on December 7, 2023, in Avdiivka, Ukraine. U.S. intelligence said that Russian forces have engaged in a costly fight for the Donetsk city to ...

Animated map of Ukraine showing the changes in Russian territorial control (in orange), from February 24, 2022 to February 1, 2025. This control can be partial or claimed VIDEOGRAPHIC ...

On ecological maps you can even see the divide between the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine—known as the steppes—with their fertile farming soil and the northern and western regions ...

Map of Ukraine, via CIA/Wikimedia Commons. ... In the summer of 1943, the steppes 100 miles southeast of today’s fighting witnessed the largest tank battle in world history. Coming from the west, Nazi ...

Since then Ukraine and Russia have suffered a million casualties, and Ukraine’s infrastructure may be wrecked for a generation. Russia’s ties to China are closer than at any time since the 1950s.