How many can even find Ukraine on a map?
I could probably show you, if you really need to know.
but countries get absorbed and fragment all the time, pretty much that has happened throughout history, trying to stop it is like trying to stop the tide.
I am one of the few who laments the absorption of the principality of hutt river. (and cause my international drivers license and passport are now invalid, at least the coins are still worth money because they were never debased.)
http://principality-hutt-river.com/