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[[ | [[Kyiv]] was its capital city, and was visited by the [[First Doctor]], [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]] in [[1240]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bunker Soldiers (novel)|Bunker Soldiers]]'') | ||
For part of the [[20th century]], Ukraine was part of the [[Soviet Union]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]'') It was attacked by the forces of [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] in [[Operation Barbarossa]] during [[World War II]]. The [[Wehrmacht]] took a huge number of [[Russia]]n [[soldier]]s [[prisoner]] during the [[ | For part of the [[20th century]], Ukraine was part of the [[Soviet Union]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]'') It was attacked by the forces of [[Nazi]] [[Germany]] in [[Operation Barbarossa]] during [[World War II]]. The [[Wehrmacht]] took a huge number of [[Russia]]n [[soldier]]s [[prisoner]] during the [[Battle of Kyiv]] in [[1941]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just War (novel)|Just War]]'') | ||
On [[26 April]] [[1986]], the nuclear power plant in [[Chernobyl]], Ukraine went into meltdown, rendering the entire area uninhabitable. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Black Destiny (comic story)|Black Destiny]]'') | On [[26 April]] [[1986]], the nuclear power plant in [[Chernobyl]], Ukraine went into meltdown, rendering the entire area uninhabitable. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Black Destiny (comic story)|Black Destiny]]'') | ||
Revision as of 19:30, 17 April 2022
Ukraine was a country in Eastern Europe that bordered the Black Sea, and was proximate to Russia, Poland, Turkey and Georgia.
History
Kyiv was its capital city, and was visited by the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet in 1240. (PROSE: Bunker Soldiers)
For part of the 20th century, Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Thin Ice) It was attacked by the forces of Nazi Germany in Operation Barbarossa during World War II. The Wehrmacht took a huge number of Russian soldiers prisoner during the Battle of Kyiv in 1941. (PROSE: Just War)
On 26 April 1986, the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine went into meltdown, rendering the entire area uninhabitable. (COMIC: Black Destiny)
President Felix Mather and Anji Kapoor may once have flown over it in a Concorde, but they couldn't be certain since they didn't have a working GPS device and their pilots refused to tell them where they were. (PROSE: Trading Futures)
By 2018, Salamander's Sun Store technology had turned Ukraine into "the grain field of the planet". Although a large area had been devastated just two years earlier, robot harvesters gathered fifty million tons of flour, and corn grew on both banks of the Dnieper River. (TV: The Enemy of the World)
Magda Wolchenka, one of the Proxima 2 colonists, was Ukrainian. (PROSE: The Face-Eater)
