Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An zauna yankin ƙasar Ukraine ta zamani tun shekara ta 32,000 kafin haihuwar Yesu. A lokacin Tsakiyar Tsakiya, yankin ya kasance muhimmiyar cibiyar al'adun Slavic na Gabas, tare da jihar Kievan Rus' mai ƙarfi wanda ya zama tushen asalin Ukraine. Bayan rarrabuwa zuwa masarautu da dama a karni na 13 da kuma barnar da mamayar Mongol ta haifar
, haɗin kan ƙasa ya rushe kuma yankin ya kasance mai jayayya, mulki, da rarrabuwa ta hanyar iko iri-iri, gami da Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Austria-Hungary, Daular Ottoman, da Tsardom na Moscovy. A Cossack Hetmanate ya fito kuma ya bunƙasa a cikin ƙarni na 17 da 18, amma a ƙarshe an raba yankin ta tsakanin Poland da Daular Rasha. Bayan juyin juya halin Rasha, wani yunkuri na kasa na Ukrainian don tabbatar da 'yancin kai ya bayyana, kuma an ayyana Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Ukraine da aka sani a duniya a ranar 23 ga Yuni, 1917. Bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II, an haɗa yammacin Ukraine cikin Jamhuriyar Socialist ta Soviet ta Ukraine, kuma dukan ƙasar ta zama sashen Tarayyar Soviet. Ukraine ta sami 'yancin kai a 1991, bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet.