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Through war and revolution. What were the routes of Ukraine before independence?

Today, Ukraine represents the 33rd river of independence. The 24th of September 1991 meant victory in the long struggle for sovereignty. Today's Ukrainians are once again facing freedom from the full-scale war with the Russian Federation, which has been going on for 30 months.

Report on the key stages in the history of the struggle of the rich for generations age – from the material of RBC-Ukraine.

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Ukrainian Revolution

Proclamation of Independence of Ukraine on September 24, 1991, historians call it a renewed statehood, and even more so a nation Alna power stood behind the hours of the Ukrainian revolutions (national liberties) 1917-1921 rocks.

Under her, modern Ukraine “relinquished” the coat of arms, the ensign and the anthem, the penny one hryvnia, the Ukrainian language as a sovereign language, the principle of conciliarity. During the period of national liberties, state institutions were created: the first Ukrainian parliament (Central Rada) and the first Ukrainian government (General Secretariat of the Central Parliament).

The independence of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) was confirmed in 1918 by the end of the war with the Bolsheviks, who were advancing on Kiev. The courage and patriotism of young Ukrainians during the battle near Kruty helped to slow down the opening of the enemy's pens. The UPR has won an hour to participate in the Beresteysky world, after which international recognition and military assistance were withdrawn.

In the unstable political situation, with changes in power and a residual transition of the region not under the control of the Bolsheviks for a long time, During the Ukrainian Revolution of 1919, another significant movement was born – the vote to the Act of Evil Lands of the UPR and the WUNR into a single council of Ukraine.

Photo: Sofiyska Square in Kiev on the day of the protest of the Act of Evil 22 September 1919 (memory.gov.ua)

Friend of the world. Renewal of power and struggle of the UPA

The territory of Ukraine was completely occupied by German troops and suffered the most bloody battles of the Other World War. However, Ukrainians also continued to fight for the independence of the region.

On June 30, 1941, after the withdrawal of the Radyan troops from Lvov, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists under the leadership of Stepan Bandera (OUN(b)) voted the Act of Renewal of the Ukrainian State. the territory of the outlying regions, Zhytomyr and outlying areas of the Kiev region, where representatives of the OUN voted on the Act at public meetings .

Photo: Lviv on the day of the vote of the Act of Renewal of the Ukrainian State (wikimedia.org) /p>

In response to the Nazis, mass arrests of Ukrainian patriots began. Importantly, the OUN took over the underground and organized support for the Germans and the Red Army, and finally in 1942 the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) was created.

In its own way, the UPA began to prepare a persistent uprising, which would inevitably arise at the moment when the SRSR and Germany were to fight one another, and then create an independent united power with little revenge in itself with ethnic Ukrainian earth.

After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of the Other World War, the UPA fought for the independence of Ukraine against the communist totalitarian regime. Opposite the underground movement until the mid-1950s.

Historical Act. How they voiced independence

The last month of summer 1991 to the fate of rapes. In the wake of the coup in Moscow and attempts to stand aside from the rule of the Radian leader Gorbachov, on September 24, tens of thousands of people gathered for a rally under the Supreme Council. That day, the parliament held a second meeting.

Due to the high degree of tension among the protesters, the deputies began to broadcast their speeches from the hall to the street. A similar broadcast was carried out previously.

< p dir="ltr">As a result of the meeting, the majority of deputies voted to approve the Act of Voting of Independence of Ukraine. The text of the document was made up of 93 words, typed on a Drukarsky machine and contained on one paper.

Tsikavo, who wrote the document in black on the 23rd Serpnya Leontiy Sandulyak and Levko Lukyanenko at school i. For the document, they chose the term “act”, because the word “law” seemed to them to be so everyday and suggested a lot of action.

In the middle of the Act, deputies removed the inscriptions: “Glory to Ukraine”, “It has not yet died and will not die”, “As of today, it will be.”

Revolutions during the hours of independence

After independence gained, Ukrainians continued to pursue a course towards the democratic development of the country. Ale these authorities incited the citizens to come out to protest because they had given money to the valley-bearing change.

At the fall of leaves in 2004, people came out to the Maidan through massive falsifications during the presidential elections. The henchmen of the candidate Viktor Yushchenko gathered in the center of Kiev in order to recognize the invalid results of the voting, which were replaced by Viktor Yanukovych.

Photo: Orange Revolution (Getty Images)

The Ukrainians were then able to achieve a second round of elections. As a result, Yushchenko became the leader of the state, and the Verkhovna Rada praised the changes to the Constitution to change the presidential ranks.

Prote Yanukovych still managed to come to power. In the fall of 2013, due to the decision to slow down the process of integration of Ukraine into the EU, new protests flared up. The security forces oversaw a brutal crackdown on activists, which caused even greater harm to the Ukrainians. During the winter of 2013-2014, over 100 civilians perished.

Фото: розгін активістів під час Революції Гідності (Віталій Носач, РБК-Україна)

< em>The result of the Gidnost Revolution was Yanukovych’s change of power, and the unstable situation in Ukraine precipitated Russia.

Invasion of the Russian Federation

Nutrition of Crimea has repeatedly become the subject of disputes and Ukraine and the Russian Federation. In the wake of the Revolution of Gidnost, Russia annexed the region, against which the firemen did not stop.

In the spring of 2014, pro-Russian forces buried the low places of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and voted there the creation is so called “DPR” that “LPR”.

Photo: protest near Krimu in 2014 roci (Getty Images)

The Ukrainian military launched an anti-terrorist operation, just before they managed to liberate part of the occupied territories. When the parties were tempted to negotiate, the conflict continued, which ultimately led to a large-scale invasion of Russia at the bitter end of 2022.

Today, 24 September, on Independence Day – exactly 30 m The beginning of the Great War .

Defense forces defended Kiev, seized control of the invaded territories of Kharkiv and Kherson regions, sank a significant part of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation, regularly weakened the enemy’s forces with drone strikes deep Russian style. However, the struggle of Ukrainians for the right to live freely on the sovereign land is troubling.

During the preparation, the advances of the Dzherel were taken into account: publications of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, “Susp “Ilne Culture”, Wikipedia.

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