How much of Ukraine is occupied by Russia?

By 2019, 7% of Ukraine was classified by the Ukrainian government as temporarily occupied territories. In 2021 and early 2022, there was a major Russian military build-up around Ukraine's borders.
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How much of Ukraine territory is occupied by Russia?

Russia currently occupies 126,119 sq km of Ukrainian territory.
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What parts of Ukraine are occupied by Russia?

Russian troops have continued to shell Ukrainian positions across the southern regions of Zaporizhia, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk. According to the ISW, Russia's current priority in the south is to halt Ukrainian counterattacks, which have succeeded in regaining some territory in recent weeks.
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How much of Ukraine is occupied?

As of 2019, the government considered 7% of Ukraine's territory to be under occupation. The United Nations General Assembly resolution A/73/L.47, adopted on 17 December 2018, designated Crimea as under "temporary occupation".
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How many Russians live in Ukraine?

There are between 11 and 12 million ethnic Russians in Ukraine, including approximately 1.5 million who live in the Crimean peninsula (Uncaptive Minds Spring 1992, 76-77; RFE/RL 8 May 1992, 14).
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What percentage of Crimea is Russian?

The ethnic composition is as follows: Russians: 1.49 million (65.3%), Ukrainians: 0.35 million (15.1%), Crimean Tatars: 0.24 million (12.0%).
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What percentage of eastern Ukraine is Russian?

(17.3% of the population of Ukraine).
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How long was Ukraine under Russian control?

Following the Partitions of Poland (1772–1795) and the Russian conquest of the Crimean Khanate, the Russian Empire and Habsburg Austria were in control of all the territories that constitute present day Ukraine for a hundred years. A chaotic period of warfare ensued after the Russian Revolutions of 1917.
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Is Crimea a part of Russia?

Since Russian control over Crimea was established in 2014, the peninsula has been administered as part of the Russian Federation (except for the northern areas of the Arabat Spit and the Syvash, which were controlled by Ukraine until Russian occupation resumed in February 2022).
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When did Russia invade Crimea?

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and is part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War.
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Is Crimea its own country?

Ukraine restored Crimea's autonomous status in 1991. Crimea's autonomous status was re-affirmed in 1996 with the ratification of Ukraine's current constitution, which designated Crimea as the "Autonomous Republic of Crimea", but also an "inseparable constituent part of Ukraine".
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Is Georgia a Russian state?

After the Russian Revolution in 1917, Georgia emerged as an independent republic under German protection. Following World War I, Georgia was invaded and annexed by the Soviet Union in 1922, becoming one of its constituent republics.
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What is the most popular religion in Ukraine?

Religion in Ukraine is diverse, with a majority of the population adhering to Christianity. A 2018 survey conducted by the Razumkov Centre found that 71.7% of the population declared themselves believers.
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How big is Ukraine compared to us?

Ukraine is about 16 times smaller than United States.

United States is approximately 9,833,517 sq km, while Ukraine is approximately 603,550 sq km, making Ukraine 6.14% the size of United States. Meanwhile, the population of United States is ~332.6 million people (288.7 million fewer people live in Ukraine).
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Is the Donbass war still ongoing?

No formal declaration of war has been issued in the ongoing War in the Donbas. When the Kremlin announced the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it claimed to commence a "special military operation", side-stepping a formal declaration of war.
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Do crimeans want to be part of Russia?

The results of that survey were published by Open Democracy in March, 2015, and reported that, overall, 84% of Crimeans felt the choice to secede from Ukraine and accede to Russia was "Absolutely the right decision", with the next-largest segment of respondents saying the decision to return to Russia was the "Generally ...
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Who owned Crimea before Russia?

The Crimean interior came under the control of the Turco-Mongol Golden Horde from 1239 to 1441. The name Crimea (via Italian, from Turkic Qirim) originates as the name of the provincial capital of the Golden Horde, the city now known as Staryi Krym.
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Who gave Crimea to Ukraine?

After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev transferred the Crimean Oblast from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR.
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Was Ukraine occupied by Germany?

During World War II, Reichskommissariat Ukraine (abbreviated as RKU) was the civilian occupation regime (Reichskommissariat) of much of Nazi German-occupied Ukraine (which included adjacent areas of modern-day Belarus and pre-war Second Polish Republic).
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What was Ukraine called before?

Ukraine had experienced a brief period of independence in 1918–20, but portions of western Ukraine were ruled by Poland, Romania, and Czechoslovakia in the period between the two World Wars, and Ukraine thereafter became part of the Soviet Union as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (S.S.R.).
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Is it OK to speak Russian in Ukraine?

Many people in central Ukraine are happy if a foreigner speaks either Russian or Ukrainian and might get carried away. They distinguish the two languages but they are living in a bilingual mode. They often change language in the midst of a conversation. In contrast to this Russian is seen as alien by many in Lviv.
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Are you allowed to speak Russian in Ukraine?

Russian is recognized as the language of a national minority. A 2012 law, called the law "On the principles of the State language policy" gave the status of regional language to Russian and other minority languages.
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Where is Russia population mostly distributed?

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The country has a population density of just 8.4 people per square kilometer (22 per square mile), but the population is most dense in the European area of the country around Saint Petersburg and Moscow.
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