Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe, inhabited since 32,000 BC. In Middle Ages, it was an important center of the East Slavic culture, with the powerful state of Kievan Rus' that form the basis of Ukrainian identity. Later the territory was disputed, divided and Governed by a variety of powers, including Lithuania, Poland, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary and Russia. A Cossack republic prospered during the 17th and 18th century, but its territory was eventually divided between Poland and the Russian Empire, and then completely submerged in Russia. Two brief periods of independence occurred, once near the end of World War I and another during World War II, but both occasions would ultimately see Ukraine's territories conquered and consolidated into a Soviet republic until 1991, when Ukraine Gained independence from Soviet Union.
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