Who knew where Ukraine was before Russia invaded?

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Did you know where Ukraine was before Russia invaded? Did you specifically know that Ukraine is the largest country in Europe (not counting Russia, which is mostly in Asia)?

ObscuredBeyond · Accepted Answer

I had a general idea of where it was. Four of my younger siblings were actually adopted from the Donetsk region, shortly before the Mya Donne movement in 2014 resulted in mass murder of dozens of innocents, as NWO jackasses replaced the duly-elected president with a puppet that the CIA hand-picked. This is what led to Donetsk getting fed up with the suspension of elections, and with its disenfranchisement. Leading to it seceding from Ukraine. Which, in turn, led to Kiev "authorities" labeling the freedom fighters as "rebels" and "insurgents," and bombing them daily.

However, most of Donetsk had a population that was ethnically Russian, and were good trade partners with Russia. So Putin got pissed that their lives didn't matter to the ding dongs in Ukraine. Amidst the entire thing, the Bidens (big surprise!) were playing both sides in this brewing conflict.

To protect their racketeering operations in Ukraine, the Bidens (and Romney, and Graham, and others in Congress, and the Clintons, etc.), they wanted to make sure that Trump's efforts to diffuse the situation and prevent a war were frustrated. So even though they used a quid pro quo to get Ukraine to fire the prosecutor that was investigating Hunter, they turned around and accused Trump of it, simply for warning the president in Ukraine at the time that said Ukrainian president was surrounded by snakes!

"When exposing a crime is treated as the commission of a crime; criminals rule over you." - Edward Snowden

Trump learned that the hard way, leading to him getting impeached. However, he was acquitted. The racketeers didn't take this fair-and-square loss sitting down! They pulled every dirty trick in the book to eradicate Trump here, just as they'd done to the previous Ukrainian president whose supporters they murdered in 2014 during the Mya Donne uprising!

Had my siblings not been adopted out to my family, the two boys would be gangbangers selling drugs in the streets. The youngest? Hard to say. The oldest of them? She'd probably a prostitute by now. That's what happens to orphans in Ukraine, if no one adopts them!

To work at a passport call center in 2011, I had to give them the (already-obsolete) data of the already-closed orphanage my siblings were from, even though I was never in Ukraine! I was finishing up my TV production degree internship not far from Detroit, while my parents went overseas.

If only these NWO types had let Donetsk have its freedom; and walked away. But it was a philosophical insult to grievous to bear! So they did the exact opposite of honoring Putin's red line. Just as Biden ignored the Taliban's red line, and undid a peace treaty Trump made, that sent Afghanistan right back to where it was 20 years before!

Moral: Everything the Bidens touch, turns to shit. America. Russia. Ukraine. All of it! They're in bed with China; so China better get rid of them once they're no longer useful; if China knows what's good for it! The Bidens will otherwise destroy China next! (Currently, they're helping China take over the world, piece by piece. But by using them, China is making deals with more devils than it can handle!)

MuddyMole · Accepted Answer

Most people probably know it's the largest of the countries to declare independence from the former Soviet Union, and that it's on the Black Sea, so that pretty much pinpoints it.

I suspect most people would struggle with Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia though, and get them mixed up - and very few people would be able to identify that little bit of green between Poland and Lithuania (hint: it's green because it belongs to Russia).

I haven't been to Ukraine, but I've been to Kosice in Eastern Slovakia, which is only about 60 miles from the border.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

any war is sad
any invasion is sad
but usa has also killed and stolen and made wars

Russia is only protecting their interest just like the U. S. A. so I hate the fact that usa is. making it out like russia is so evil when usa has done so much evil shit. to begin with the people who rule the usa stole this land from others in a horrible way.. so to sit there an point fingers is just hypocritical. usa is disgusting.

but that is life. the people with the most money/power will always rule over the rest and feed the people the information they want you to side on.

and yes I knew where Ukraine was

purplepoppy · Accepted Answer

I knew where it was but to be truthful most people the uk kinda just lump all the eastern European countries together. Yes technically their part of Europe but we still see them as separate, like that 6 finger cousin we don't really talk about. It's our equivalent of those southern American states you have.

ThisDudeHere · Answer

Most people are not American so we know geography to a pretty decent extent.

HighlyVolatile · Answer

I did but maybe more from having an ex from Ukraine than through my geography courses. Geography was always a weak point of mine. I could memorize locations, major cities, cultural summaries, etc, well enough for tests but it'd evaporate from my mind soon after.

It always seemed like the driest subject to me looking at world maps and trying to memorize things. I can memorize it in the short term but it tends to vanish from my memories unless I can connect what I'm looking at to things I find more interesting like people living there that I know.

InventorofWarp · Answer

Those videos on YouTube have to be bullshit, basic geography is mandatory across all Western nations from here in The Great White North to the 'Muricans, Brits, French and Nords. Anyone who doesn't either dropped out or is naturally stupid.
I can tell you where fuckin' Qatar is.

Jaximus-Lion · Answer

I was in Kyiv in 2019, I am a little bit better than an average person that knows countries and where they are.

Who knew where Ukraine was before Russia invaded?

It was a nice city, the people are super friendly even though they can't speak English but very few could and we had fun.

NamerOfStars · Answer

I did. I also know (this is advanced knowledge, so I don't blame you for not being privy to it) that 233,000 is actually a SMALLER number than 246,000, so unless France has ceased to existed and no one told me, Ukraine's still number three in size.

little_rose · Answer

I actually learnt about the invasion about a week or so before it blew up.
I was watching a news show and they said that they found Russian tanks approaching Ukraine and when asked about it, the Russian President said it was just a military exercise and denied any accusation of a possible war or invasion.

I actually thought it was funny and saved the story to tell my dad when I would call him. But my dad found it quite concerning.

Aerissa_Jade · Answer

I definitely knew where it was, as I love geography. I can also know where the smallest country in Europe is located.

Jackblue · Answer

Look I don't know where those studies come from about Americans not knowing things on maps. Apparently there is an ignorant mass only interested in their jobs, sports, and celebrity gossip, but I have never met them. I can believe some Generation X people are like that, but boomers, millennials, and Generation Z people are obsessed with world politics.

Crucis84 · Answer

"Studies have shown that many Americans cannot locate the United States on a world map"
Yet another reason why I'm eternally thankful I didn't grow up there, and do not now live in the United States. The world's number one country? I don't think so! Find it on a map first if you can, and then tell me all about it :D :D

crimsonandclover2 · Answer

Are there any people, who don't? Even third graders do  That's like asking 1+1=? 😂

ohboyohboy76 · Answer

As a wee lad, I had a massive crush on Oksana Baiul during her Olympic run. I think she represented Ukraine at the first Olympics in which they participated as an independent country.

t-8900 · Answer

I look at maps of Europe on an almost daily basis. I have maps of Europe that display national borders going back to 461 BC all the way up to present day

Neko_Nya · Answer

Why does that map say Belorussia, they're not part of Russia, its Belarus

supercutebutt · Answer

Everyone in the US because Comrade Trump was trying to blackmail the Ukrainian President and he was impeached over it.

Kaneki05 · Answer

Of course. I know a lot about such history and locations for Russia, still ironic that Russia's best sniper was from Ukraine.

Valso · Answer

I've always known where UA is. As a resident of a country which is a former slave of the Russian murderous regime known as "communism", I know where the occupator is as well as other occupied countries (UA) by the same aggressor.

douride2 · Answer

We learned that stuff back in grade school geography.

Diodoro · Answer

I did but I just got back from Turkey so I became familiar with the Map for my vacation

RolandCuthbert · Answer

Well, if you have been in Ukraine, you kind of know where it is.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Being big means little. Being " great" means little, too. Ukraine was known to me; but with least effect on my own life.

MCheetah · Answer

I think you assume people to be more ignorant of geography than they really are.

anylolone · Answer

Kievan RUSS. History is weird... Vikings were involved, yeah, vikings.

Germans settled in norway, then conquered ukraine and eventually conquered what's today russia.
Demographically replaced the local slavs with russian slaves during the USSR, and then the russian slavs separated from them. And now they are essentially invading a bunch of close relatives that hate them.

Dargil · Answer

People who actually studied geography in school rather than social justice nonsense.

sheikalana · Answer

My job requires me to travel a lot. I've been to Ukraine a few times.

josephinelcajon · Answer

Being a cold war kid, the Iron Curtain was well known!

Citizenkirk · Answer

The Soviet Union made the countries a huge communist clusterfuck

SinceYouAsked · Answer

I was in military intelligence (I know - a contradiction of terms) during the Cold War. So, yeah, I was very much aware.

Anonymous · Answer

@update where is your study saying that or are you making it

Exterminatore · Answer

I knew everything you asked and like you I’m stunned so many people claim to know the answers to these questions.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

Erm yeah, you would have to be a bit stupid, ignorant etc not to know where something that has featured in history actually is.

Like WW2, Chernobyl, Chicken Kiev even.

that and Russian Revolution, all the stuff before then.

NaultD · Answer

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.

I even remember memes with the Olympic circles becoming tank trends because Russia invaded just after the 2014 Olympic games.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

I can't wrap my head around how hard this is to find. If you understand that Ukraine borders Russia and know where Russia is, your chances of being correct will be much higher.

loves2learn · Answer

Me. I did. 🙋🏻‍♀️ My neighbor is from there. 😞

pleasestopthis · Answer

I did because I've always loved looking at maps, and I'm not from the US.

bolverk · Answer

Yes I knew where the Ukraine was before this conflict broke out, I've worked there.

Lionman95 · Answer

Maybe it would help your question if you posted a map where there countries aren´t named on to produce a probably more accurate result because now people can click I knew while looking on your map.

Babygirl_S · Answer

I knew about it because many Indians go there for medical education.

Cubus · Answer

That's the only good thing about this war. Americans will finaly learn where Ukraine is on the map.

boobliker · Answer

I live in the UK so it less than 1000 miles away and loads of them live here in the uk

Likes2drive · Answer

I knew about where it was and work with a guy that is from there

jshm2 · Answer

The problem was never where Ukraine was, but why it's important.

TheAfrikan · Answer

I knew about Ukraine pretty well before all this mess of invading occured as well as its location too @aviatortom

Кураж · Answer

I know where Ukraine is since I currently live few kilometers away from its western border lol. I've been to Uzhhorod several times.

blackgaletiger · Answer

I learned level 2 about Ukraine which was they were once apart of the USSR which explained why my Ukrainian friend could speak Russian :O

Twalli · Answer

I probably couldn't point to it's exact location on a blank map, but i had a pretty good idea.

Anonymous · Answer

I knew where it was, but I didn't realize how big. Thought it was about the size of Hungary

JesseJayNeak · Answer

I knew. I was interested in Ukrainian boxers like the Klitschko brothers, Vasyl Lomachenko, Alexander Usyk and Gvozdyk

DCooper · Answer

A better question would be, how many knew they changed the spelling of Kiev to Kyiv, lol.

CasaNorba · Answer

in Eastern Europe, no shit! I'm pretty sure people found out where it was back in 1986 when that Chernobyl incident happened

goaded · Answer

I could have picked it out on a map, but I hadn't realised how big it is.

Dchrls78104 · Answer

I grew up around the time of the Chernobyl mess so I had but a foggy idea where Ukraine was (except that it was then part of the Soviet Union).

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Americans know about Ukraine, because they go there for women

EternalInfobot · Answer

I've been there many times

mobiusforniner · Answer

Chernobyl. That's all I really know. LOL.

BlackCatBone · Answer

Some people here aren’t American lol.

Layafell · Answer

I did but I'm from Europe

exitseven · Answer

I knew where it was from the last time.

Anonymous · Answer

Ukraine is next to Russia so they should of known if they gained "freedom" that Russia was gonna hit them hard with the atom bomb. 😂

DamnSam · Answer

Just 2 countries to the right from where I am

JohnK123 · Answer

Everyone should know where they are

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