Ukraine was independent in 1991 and has only been independent for more than 30 years, while historically, Ukraine and Russia have been a national alliance, a Russian-dominated confederation that has been in history for 337 years.
The history of Ukraine was occupied either by Poland, Lithuania, or by the Mongols, or by Russia, or by Tsarist Russia, or by the Soviet Union.
The true independence of Ukraine began with the collapse of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine became an independent state, and the first president was Kravchuk.
On May 5, 1992, the second year after Ukraine's independence, the Crimean Peninsula also declared its independence as an autonomous republic of Ukraine, similar to a Russian republic.
Although Ukraine declared its independence, it remained the old model of the Soviet Union until 1996, when Ukraine adopted a new constitution that defined Ukraine as a sovereign, independent and democratic state with a legal system and a republican system. That is, there are votes, running for president. Then-incumbent President Kuchma announced that he would not run, and incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and Viktor Yushchenko narrowly won the final round of voting. Victor P.
And its supporters called electoral fraud, did not recognize the results, launched the Orange Revolution, and finally voted again in the general election, victory victory by Victor Yushchenko.
We look at these two people, Yanukovych and Victor Yushchenko, in fact, they are ukrainian oligarchs, they are not playing a seesaw game of donkeys and elephants, but a contest between lions and tigers, not recognizing the results of the election, directly launching a revolution, fighting the nation is not the same. Trump does not recognize the election results, that is, to make a bunch of people storm Congress, nor does he dare to launch a revolution.
By March 2006, Ukraine held elections for the Supreme Soviet, which resulted in five parties entering the new Supreme Soviet, of which Yanukovych's Regional Party won 186 of the 450 seats, the incumbent Prime Minister Tymoshenko's campaign coalition had 129 seats, Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine 81, the Socialist Party 33 and the Ukrainian Communist Party 21.
There are no eternal friends and no eternal enemies, and this phrase is very apt in Ukrainian politics, and this time, Yanukovych and Yushchenko joined hands to oust Tymoshenko from power, and Yanukovych became prime minister of the new government.
By April 2007, President Yushchenko abruptly dissolved the Parliament, simply because his political party our Ukrainian parliamentarians joined the opposition. Political opponents called Yushchenko's move unconstitutional, but Tymoshenko, who was ousted by Yanukovych and Yushchenko, supported it. The case ended in the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, and the final magic was that President Yushchenko dismissed 3 of the 18 judges of the Constitutional Court on charges of corruption. Because Tymoshenko supported Yushchenko's merits, Tymoshenko took over Yanukovych as prime minister.
Then, the crystal ball of power passed around in the hands of these people.
In the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election, Yushchenko and Tymoshenko became political enemies. Yushchenko refused to withdraw from the election despite his extremely low approval rating, dividing the anti-Yanukovych vote. As a result, Yanukovych defeated Tymoshenko (45% of the vote) and Yushchenko (6% of the vote) with 48% of the vote, and was elected president.
In August 2011, Yanukovych arrested Tymoshenko and sentenced Tymoshenko to seven years in prison for abuse of power. Whether Tymoshenko has abused his power, I think, this question must also be a suspense drama.
In November 2013, the pro-Russian Yanukovych refused to sign the Ukraine-EU integration agreement, sparking pro-EU demonstrations in Ukraine. Seeing that the situation was too critical to resist, Yanukovych fled the capital Kiev and went to the pro-Russian region of eastern Ukraine.
Then the Provisional Government of Ukraine indicated that power had been smoothly transferred to the new Government, whose interim president was Alexander Turchynov. The Ukrainian parliament subsequently impeached Yanukovych, and in 2014 Yanukovych was accused of treason and sentenced to life in prison, the highest sentence. By 2019, the charges had not changed, and life imprisonment had become 13 years in prison. Neither life imprisonment nor 13 years' imprisonment was useful, because Yanukovych had already gone to Russia.
Yanukovych's luxury villas are said to be 140 hectares, and the interior is said to be luxuriously decorated, with leisure and entertainment facilities such as massage rooms, boxing rings, billiard rooms and so on. It is now a tourist attraction in Ukraine, but you need to buy a ticket to get in.
In 2014, a lot happened in Ukraine, the famous Crimean crisis. Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine. The eastern large city of Donetsk was established as the Donetsk People's Republic. Protesters in Odessa, Ukraine, declared Odessa Oblast the People's Republic of Odessa. The Luhansk Region of Eastern Ukraine established the Luhansk People's Republic. The Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic joined the new Russian Federation. It is not currently internationally recognized.
On May 29, 2014, Ukrainian billionaire Poroshenko was elected ukraine's new president for a five-year term with 54.7% of the vote. Founded by Poroshenko, One of the largest confectionery manufacturers in Europe, Poroshenko is known as the "Chocolate King".
One oligarch goes down, another comes up, and that's what's the political situation in Ukraine over the years. All are oligarchs, the infighting between the oligarchs seriously consumes Ukraine's national strength, the Ukrainian economy is a mess, not only the economy is not good, the population is also declining year by year, so it can not withstand the toss, fortunately, Ukraine's land is all black land, grain production is rich, Ukraine has "European granary" known as the "European granary", agricultural exports account for 39% of total exports, agriculture's contribution to GDP rate of more than 10%.
Like his predecessor, Poroshenko was charged with treason on suspicion of trading with "separatists" in eastern Ukraine, and on January 14, 2022, Ukraine's National Bureau of Investigation announced that Poroshenko was charged with treason and is scheduled to be tried on January 17.
However, the magic thing came again, because of the Russian invasion, Poroshenko did not go to prison, but took to the streets with weapons and became a hero against Russia!
The Ukrainian people were so disillusioned with the oligarchs that they chose a comedian, Zelenskiy, whom we see today. On April 21, 2019, Ukrainian comedian Vladimir Zelenskiy was elected President of Ukraine with 73.23% of the vote.
As president of Ukraine, Zelenskiy also had a mediocre political record. In January 2020, during a meeting between Ukrainian President Zelenskiy and the Omani summit, it was revealed that he was staying in a presidential suite in Oman's most expensive hotel, which cost 4,000 euros per night, which was confirmed by the press office of the Ukrainian presidential office, and said that the president's family was traveling to Oman by private jet, and that zelenskiy himself paid for the entire cost of the vacation.
I don't know whether it was the impact of the incident or the reason for the political performance, but in December 2021, Zelenskiy's approval rating was only about 30%.
Of course, like Poroshenko, who almost went to jail, because of Russia's troops, Zelenskiy's approval rating has now soared to more than 90%, three times more than last December!
Well, that's the simple history of Ukraine!