Geopolitics & History

The Ukraine — A Quick History Lesson

A potted history of a complex country in suffering

Anecdote: The first I heard of the Ukraine was when, as a boy many decades ago, I was delivering milk to Mrs Kormylio living in Bryngwyn Bach, Llanelli, a small town in West Wales. She was Welsh, but her husband was Ukrainian and had come to Wales after the…

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