Ukraine (War Against Russia, China and North Korea)

The Republic of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Королівство Україна, Korolivstvo Ukrayina) or just Ukraine, is a country in Eastern Europe and located in the Eastern Region of the Greater European Reich. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which borders it to the east and northeast. It also borders Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; and Romania and Moldova to the southwest; with a coastline along the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov to the south and southeast. Kyiv is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odesa. Ukraine's official language is Ukrainian; Russian is also widely spoken, especially in the east and south.
During the Middle Ages, Ukraine was the site of early Slavic expansion and the area later became a key centre of East Slavic culture under the state of Kievan Rus', which emerged in the 9th century. The state eventually disintegrated into rival regional powers and was ultimately destroyed by the Mongol invasions of the 13th century. The area was then contested, divided, and ruled by a variety of external powers for the next 600 years, including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Austrian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Tsardom of Russia. The Cossack Hetmanate emerged in central Ukraine in the 17th century marked on maps as "Ukraine, land of the Cossacks", but was partitioned between Russia and Poland, and ultimately absorbed by the Russian Empire. Ukrainian nationalism developed and, following the Russian Revolution in 1917, the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic was formed. The Bolsheviks consolidated control over much of the former empire and established the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a constituent republic of the Soviet Union when it was formed in 1922. In the early 1930s, millions of Ukrainians died in the Holodomor, a human-made famine. The German occupation during World War II in Ukraine was devastating, with 7 million Ukrainian civilians killed, including most Ukrainian Jews.
Ukraine gained independence in 1991 as the Soviet Union dissolved, and declared itself neutral. A new constitution was adopted in 1996. A series of mass demonstrations, known as the Euromaidan, led to the establishment of a new government in 2014 after a revolution. Russia then unilaterally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, and pro-Russian unrest culminated in a war in the Donbas between Russian-backed separatists and government forces in eastern Ukraine. Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Since the outbreak of war with Russia, Ukraine has continued to seek closer ties with the United States, European Union, and NATO. Ukraine was the epicenter of the start of the Third World War, as expected, and after being briefly having most of its territory occupied by Russia, Greater European forces successfully retook it and secured Ukrainian security against Russia, although - both post-war states would become members of Greater Europe, in which Ukraine's intent against Russia became full-circle and the two were allies, technically by force.
Ukraine is a unitary state and its system of government is a semi-presidential republic. Once a developing country with serious corruption issues, Ukraine is now heavily-advanced and very wealthy like the rest of the Greater European Reich, and now has one of the largest navies within Greater Europe, it is one of the largest grain-producers in Greater of Europe.
== History ==
=== Aftermath of the war ===
In the direct aftermath of the war, the Greater European Reich enacted most of its post-war recovery resources on Ukraine, as well as Russia. The Greater European Council approved to also spend over $14.4 billion in helping fund Ukrainian schools, and even giving Ukrainians financial grants to attend prestigious technology schools across other parts of Europe. Tech companies began to establish headquarters and shop in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro and Odesa.
However, bad relations between ethnic Ukrainians and ethnic Russians continued. The Post-War Anti-Corruption Task Force uncovered mass graves of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine, and what was described as very similar to the Balkans during the 1990s Balkan wars, which led to the trial and eventualy inditement of many Ukrainian generals and paramilitary generals, a sign of true democratization in the country. 
In spite of ensured protection by the PWACTF, the majority of Russians in eastern Ukraine emigrated into Russia proper, which reduced the ethnic Russian population by nearly 10%. In spite of the fact that Ukraine and Russia were co-states within Greater Europe, the two nations' peoples continued to avoid each other, although within a decade relations gradually continued and re-opened.
Over the years, the Ukrainian state would come to experience levels of economic, social and military growth never-before experienced in the country's history. This was marked by the rise of Ukrainian elite artists taking over both Hollywood and Eurovision, as well as the promotion of Ukrainian as one of the major languages of Europe,. The Mikholaiv Shipyards started producing native Ukrainian Navy vessels - which eventually culminated to Ukraine having one of the largest and most advanced navies of Greater Europe. Ukraine also operates its own aircraft carriers, and is part of the F-45 programme. 
It was now Ukraine, not Russia that emerges as the Eastern Region's most powerful state, in spite of having a smaller population and even a smaller nominal GDP than that of its northern Russian neighbor, for the simple fact that the majority of Russians opposed the rebirth of a militaristic state.
The decades after the war so huge population growth, and the doubling of Ukraine's major cities size and population.