- Ukrainian, Ukraïna, Republic of Ukraine, country of the Eastern Europe, limited to the North by Byelorussia, to the North and in the East by Russia, to the South by the Black Sea and the Azov sea, in the southwest by Moldavia and Rumania, and on the West by Hungary, Slovakia and Poland. Ancient soviet socialist Republic of Ukraine within the framework of the USSR, Ukraine is an associate member of the Community of the independent States ( CIS ), which succeeded in the USSR in 1991. The surface of Ukraine is of 603 700 km2, what makes it, after Russia, second country of Europe by the size. Kiev is the capital and most big city of the country.
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