First Day Of Spring 2025 Ukraine. Ukrainians marked the first day of spring with words of hope and pictures of flowers on social media, acknowledging they have survived a bleak winter at war with russia. From may 1 to 7, 2023.

Here is a timeline of ukraine’s fraught relationship with moscow since it won independence in 1991 and the events that led to the current conflict. For those of us in the northern hemisphere, this was marked by the.