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  Russia–Ukraine relations   refer to the bilateral ties between the   Russian Federation   and   Ukraine . Following the Ukrainian   Revolution of Dignity   in 2014, Ukraine's   Crimean Peninsula   was occupied by   unmarked Russian forces , later being   annexed by Russia , while   pro-Russia separatists   simultaneously engaged the Ukrainian military in   an armed conflict for control over eastern Ukraine ; these events marked the beginning of the ongoing   Russo-Ukrainian War . In a major escalation of the conflict on 24 February 2022, Russia launched   a full-scale invasion of the Ukrainian mainland   across a broad front. Ukraine severed all formal diplomatic ties with Russia on the day of the 2022 Russian invasion. [1] [2] [3] After the  collapse of the Soviet Union  in 1991, the successor states' bilateral relations have undergone periods of ties, tensions, and outright hostility. In t...

  The flag of Ukraine consists of equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow. The combination of blue and yellow as a symbol of Ukraine comes from the flag of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia used in the 12th century.   Ukraine  ( Ukrainian :  Україна ,  romanized :  Ukraïna ,  pronounced  [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ]   ( listen ) ) is a country in  Eastern Europe . It is the  second-largest country by area  in Europe after  Russia , which it borders to the east and north-east. [a]  Ukraine also shares borders with  Belarus  to the north;  Poland ,  Slovakia , and  Hungary  to the west;  Romania  and  Moldova [b]  to the south; and has a coastline along the  Sea of Azov  and the  Black Sea . It spans an area of 603,628 km 2  (233,062 sq mi). [c]  With a population of 43 million, [10] [d]  Ukraine is the  eighth-most populous count...