Heck, find Ireland. Find Poland. Find Finland. Find the Baltic Republics!
What does your map prove!?
Regards,
Do you know what "Ukraine" translates as in Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian?
Borderland. That's why it was called THE Ukraine, that is to say, "The Ukraine" denominated a borderland region, not a sovereign nation, not until 1991 and the breakup of the USSR.