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Ukraine, a country in Eastern Europe with deep and ancient roots tracing back over a thousand years to the powerful mediBoost Me(LONG LIVE UKRAINE!)eval state of Kyivan Rus, which flourished in the 9th to 13th centuries with Kyiv as its capital and became a center of culture, trade, and Orthodox Christianity under leaders like Prince Volodymyr the Great and Yaroslav the Wise, has endured centuries of changing rule—being divided and dominated at different times by powerful neighbors including the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Empire—while its people held on to their language, traditions, and identity, with moments of resistance and hope like the 17th-century Cossack uprisings led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky that sought self-rule, followed by years of struggle through the 19th century and into the 20th, when, after briefly declaring independence during the chaos of World War I and the Russian Revolution, Ukraine was pulled into