Ukraine

Ukraine was a human nation located in Eastern Europe on Earth in the Sol System. It bordered countries including the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

Following the fragmentation of the territory of what became Ukraine into several principalities in the 13th century and the devastation created by an invasion by the Mongols, the territorial unity collapsed and the area was contested, ruled, and divided by a variety of powers, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia. A Cossack Hetmanate emerged and prospered during the 17th and 18th centuries, but its territory was eventually split between Poland and the Russian Empire.

Ukraine became independent in 1917, with Ukrainian revolutionaries capitalising on a power vacuum in the Russian Empire after the collapse of the Russian government following the devastating orbital strikes throughout Europe that ended the Great War. The revolution in Russia led to the formation of the communist Soviet Union, while Ukraine eventually evolved into a democratic republic. The new Ukrainian People's Republic inherited the city of Odessa from the Russian Empire, which had been destroyed by an orbital strike.

Ukraine joined the League of Nations in 1920.

In 1966 Ukraine joined the European Union. In 1968 the European Union was merged with the Commonwealth of Nations to form the United Commonwealth.

The government of the United Commonwealth federalised in 1988. The Ukrainian government was therefore effectively absorbed into the United Commonwealth Government in 1988, and Ukraine is largely regarded to have ceased to exist as a separate nation-state on that date.