CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States - an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991

country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

Crimea - a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov

capital of the Ukraine, Kiev, Kyyiv - capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center

Donetsk, Donetske, Stalino - an industrial city in the Donets Basin

Donbas, Donbass, Donets Basin - an industrial region in the Ukraine

Chernobyl - a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (16 April 1986)

Kharkiv, Kharkov - a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine

Odesa, Odessa - a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea

Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians - a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area

Danube, Danube River - the 2nd longest European river; flows into the Black Sea

Dnieper, Dnieper River - a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

Ukranian - a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine