02-04-2022, 02:19 PM
(01-04-2022, 07:18 PM)Tufnell_Chimes Wrote: Its just Ukraine. 'The' Ukraine was a Russian neologism to make an independent country sound like one of their regions.
Just to point out that Russian does not use definite or indefinite articles, so they don't really have control over how anglophone countries designate it. Of course it didn't much matter when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.