Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Yankin Ukraine na zamani an zauna tun shekara ta 32,000 kafin haihuwar Kristi. 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 yawa a cikin karni na 13 da lalacewar da Masarautar
Bayan mamayewar Mongol, haɗin kan ƙasa ya rushe kuma an yi jayayya da yankin, ya mallake shi, kuma ya rarraba shi da 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.