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I.e., the period in the early '90s when the U.S.S.R. under Gorbachev officially dissolved and a pile of new nations were formed when they broke away - WITH their existing borders - and that included Ukraine. The (drunk) Yeltsin then took control of what became "Russia". 
That whole period from the late '80s - mid '90s was really historically significant and it's interesting how it has been minimized.
There was a whole realignment of that area including bordering "East Germany", which eventually went away with the "reunification" to become one "Germany". You also eventually had the finalization of what would become the EU.
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