Complex sentence: Ukrainka was born in 1871 in the town of Novohrad-Volynsky, in Russian-occupied Ukraine, and was the second child of Ukrainian writer and publisher Olha Drahomanova-Kosach (better known under her literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka).
Split into simpler sentences: Ukrainka was born in 1871 in the town of Novohrad-Volynsky, in Russian-occupied Ukraine. She was the second child of Ukrainian writer and publisher Olha Drahomanova-Kosach (better known under her literary pseudonym Olena Pchilka).