Ali Rogin: That claim ignores the centuries of history through which modern Ukraine took shape. It was first home to the Kyivan Rus people, who were Scandinavians traders and Russia's namesake.

They unified in 1919 as an independent state: the Ukrainian People’s Republic. Ukraine under the Soviet Union. Ukraine's independence had been established, but the country would soon become part ...

The Kremlin continues to publicly declare territorial claims that go beyond the already occupied areas. The Institute for the ...

Understanding Ukraine's origins becomes even more complex as Russia has been on a centuries-long quest to distort Ukrainian history in an attempt to ... Ukrainians, Russians are 'brotherly people' ...

Europe’s first twenty-first-century war is very much about the past. Russian President Vladimir Putin has ventured on wild forays into the depths of history to insist that Russians and Ukrainians are ...

History has many uses, and not all of them are noble. That’s very much the case as the public gets a crash course from politicians about Ukrainian history.

The museum presented this interpretation of history until Ukraine's independence from the USSR in 1991, ... "Mazepa wasn't a traitor to his own people," said Volodymyr, 25, a history teacher in ...

The faces of three people I left behind in Ukraine are haunting me. I think about them and little else. I met them when my wife and I lived in Kyiv from late 2016 to October of 2018. My wife was a ...

Scholars dismiss the Russian leader's claims as a "mythical use of history." For one: Ukraine overwhelmingly elected a Jewish president, and has a relatively small right-wing movement.

That summer, Mr. Putin published a 5,300-word essay distorting history to claim that Ukrainians and Russians are “one people” — an argument he would later use to justify his invasion as a ...

As the U.S. steps up deportations, Trump has considered revoking the legal status of some 240,000 Ukrainians living in the country under the humanitarian program, Reuters reported early this month.