Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - Ko te rohe o Ukraine hou kua nohoia mai i te 32,000 BC. I roto i te Middle Ages, ko te rohe he pokapū matua o te ahurea Slavic Te Tai Rāwhiti, ki te kāwanatanga kaha o Kievan Rus' hanga i te pūtake o te tuakiri Ukrainian. Whai muri i tana wehewehe ki nga rangatira maha i te rautau 13 me te whakangaromanga i hangaia e te whakaekenga o Mongol
, i pakaru te kotahitanga o te rohe ka tautohetia, ka whakahaerehia, ka wehea e nga mana maha, tae atu ki te Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Austria-Hungary, te Ottoman Empire, me te Tsardom o Moscovy. I puta mai he Hetmanate Cossack, a, i angitu i nga rautau 17 me te 18, engari i te mutunga ka wehea tona rohe ki waenga i a Poland me te Russian Empire. I muri mai o te Russian Revolution, ka puta mai he nekehanga a-motu a Ukraine mo te whakatau-whaiaro, a, i whakapuakina te Reipa o te Iwi o Ukraine i te 23 o Pipiri 1917. I muri i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, ka uru te wāhanga ki te hauauru o Ukraine ki roto i te Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, a ka noho te whenua katoa hei wāhanga o te Soviet Union. I whiwhi a Ukraine i tōna rangatiratanga i te tau 1991, whai muri i te wawahanga o te Soviet Union.