The territory of present-day Ukraine, a large country in eastern Europe north of the Black Sea, has been either invaded or occupied a number of times throughout its history.
Occupation: Ukrainian State (1918), a German-installed government of much of Ukraine.
Occupation: After the Soviet annexation of Eastern Galicia and Volhynia, the Soviet Union occupied Western Ukraine until it fell to Nazi Germany in November 1941.
Occupation: Russia occupied over 25% of Ukrainian territory before being pushed back in counteroffensives.
Russia unilaterally declared that the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts were annexed into the Russian Federation (2022–present).