Ukraine

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)

However, Ukraine had to deal with the unification of Europe in the European Union, and the 2014 overthrow of dictator, Viktor Yanukovych led to the new Kyiv government seeking membership in NATO and the EU and the abolition of economic ties to Russia that had flourished under the Russophile Yanukovych.

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, Ramón 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)