... and all times controlled by the Soviet Union/Moscow. Over 300 years the territory of the Ukraine was controlled by Russia.
DISAGREE.
IMPORTANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE ALL HISTORIC KEY EVENTS OF UKRAINE DOMINATION BY FOREIGN POWERS
9TH CENTURY - Founding of Kievan Rus, the FIRST major Eastern Slavonic state. The traditional account founding to the semi-legendary Viking (or Varangian) leader Oleg, ruler of Novgorod, who went on to seize Kiev which, owing to its strategic location on the Dnieper River, became the capital of Kievan Rus.
FOREIGN DOMINATION
1237-40 - Mongols invade the Rus principalities, destroying many cities and ending Kievan Rus’s power. The Tatars, as the Mongol invaders became known, establish the empire of the Golden Horde.
1349-1430 - Poland and later the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth gradually annex most of what is now western and northern Ukraine.
RUSSIAN DOMINATION
1772-1795 - Most of western Ukraine is absorbed into the Russian Empire through the partitions of Poland.
1918 - Ukraine declares independence. Numerous rival governments vie for control for some or all of Ukraine during ensuing civil war.
1932 - Millions die in a man-made famine during Stalin’s collectivisation campaign, known in Ukraine as the Holodomor.
1939 - Western Ukraine is annexed by the Soviet Union under the terms of the Nazi-Soviet Pact.
1941 - Ukraine suffers terrible wartime devastation as Nazis occupy the country until 1944.
More than five million Ukrainians die fighting Nazi Germany. Most of Ukraine’s 1.5 million Jews are killed by the Nazis.
1944 - Stalin deports 200,000 Crimean Tatars to Siberia and Central Asia following false accusations of collaboration with Nazi Germany.
1991 - Ukraine declares independence following attempted coup in Moscow.
1990s - About 250,000 Crimean Tatars and their descendants return to Crimea following collapse of Soviet Union.
2014 February - Security forces kill at least 77 protesters in Kyiv. President Yanukovych flees to Russia, opposition takes over.
2014 March - Russian forces annex Crimea, prompting biggest East-West showdown since Cold War. US and European Union impose ever-harsher sanctions on Russia.
2014 April - Pro-Russian armed groups seize parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions on Russian border. Government launches military operation in response.
2014 May - Leading businessman Petro Poroshenko wins presidential election on pro-Western platform.
2014 July - Pro-Russian forces shoot down Malaysian airliner over eastern Ukraine conflict zone, killing all 298 people on board.
2019 April-July - Volodymyr Zelensky wins presidential election run-off in a landslide victory over incumbent Petro Poroshenko.