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Ukiyoburo
Ukiyoburo (浮世風呂) is a Japanese comic novel (kokkeibon) by the Edo-period writer Shikitei Sanba, published in four parts between 1809 and 1813, which portrays everyday Edo life through the conversations of bathers at a public bathhouse.
Ukiyodoko
Ukiyodoko (浮世床) is a Japanese comic fiction work (kokkeibon) by Shikitei Sanba, published in Edo from 1813 to 1823, depicting the conversations of Edo commoners at a barber's shop.
Ukiyozōshi
Ukiyozōshi (浮世草子) is a genre of Edo-period Japanese popular fiction depicting townspeople's lives and romances, begun by Ihara Saikaku in 1682 and centered in Osaka and Kyoto.
Ukko Happonen
Ukko Antti Einari Happonen, Finnish goalkeeper born 2007 in Tuusula; Bologna academy signing from PK Keski-Uusimaa in 2023, Finland U21 international, still awaiting a senior Serie A appearance.
Ukku-Tanhish
Ukku-Tanhish, also spelled Ukku-Takhesh, was an early king of Awan, the dynastic seat of Elamite rulers in southwestern Iran during the third millennium BC, known only from the reconstructed Awan king list.
Ukpam Oil Field
The Ukpam Oil Field is an operating conventional oil field in Nigeria, discovered in 1989 and fully owned and operated by NNPC Ltd in concession OML 123.
Ukraine (Україна)
Ukraine (Україна) is an eastern European country, the continent's second largest after Russia, with capital Kyiv. Independent since 1991, it faces Russian invasion, mass displacement, $588 billion reconstruction needs, and EU accession talks.
Ukraine and the United Nations
Ukraine and the United Nations: founding UN member as the Ukrainian SSR (1945), independent member since 1991, three Security Council terms, and General Assembly-led responses to Russia's veto since 2022.
Ukraine at the Paralympics
Ukraine at the Paralympics: the National Paralympic Committee of Ukraine's teams since the Atlanta 1996 debut, top-six medal finishes at nine straight Games, third at Rio 2016, and 82 medals at Paris 2024.
Ukraine at the Winter Universiade
Ukraine at the Winter Universiade (FISU World University Games Winter): national team participation since the 1990s. At Torino 2025, Bohdan Borkovskyi won the Games' first gold in men's biathlon; Daryna Chalyk took bronze; Ukraine also won ice hockey gold before 2001.
Ukraine in the 2026 Iran war
Ukraine in the 2026 Iran war: Ukraine's military, economic, and diplomatic role after the 28 February 2026 US-Israeli strikes on Iran, including interceptor-drone deployments to Jordan, Caspian strikes, aid strain, and the October 2026 rupture with Washington.
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest
Ukraine at the Eurovision Song Contest: participant since its 2003 debut in Riga (14th place), three-time winner (Ruslana 2004, Jamala 2016, Kalush Orchestra 2022), entries chosen via Vidbir, represented in Vienna 2026 by LELÉKA's 'Ridnym', 9th with 221 points.
Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Ukraine at Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna: singer LELÉKA with "Ridnym" (Рідним), winner of Vidbir 2026; 6th in semi-final 2, 9th in the grand final with 221 points; Bulgaria's DARA won.
Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Ukraine at Junior Eurovision 2026 (Malta, 24 October): 11-year-old Erika Kolesnichenko sings "NOT a Lullaby" (Ne kolyskova) by Svitlana Tarabarova, Ukraine's 21st entry, chosen via Junior Vidbir on a public-vote tie-break.
Ukraine International Airlines
Ukraine International Airlines (Міжнародні авіалінії України, or UIA) was Ukraine's flag carrier and largest airline, founded in 1992 and based at Kyiv's Boryspil Airport until the 2022 invasion halted flights.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, flight PS752, was a Tehran-to-Kyiv Boeing 737 shot down by Iran's Revolutionary Guard shortly after takeoff on January 8, 2020, killing all 176 aboard.
Ukraine national football team
Ukraine national football team (Збірна України), men's team of the Ukrainian Association of Football since 1991; 2006 World Cup quarterfinalist, Euro 2020 quarterfinalist, Euro 2012 co-host; coached since May 2026 by Andrea Maldera.
Ukraine–European Union relations
Ukraine–European Union relations: Partnership and Cooperation Agreement 1994, Association Agreement and DCFTA signed 2014, EU candidate status June 2022, accession negotiations opened June 2024, first clusters opened 2026.
Ukraine–NATO relations
Ukraine–NATO relations: partnership launched when Ukraine joined NATO's North Atlantic Cooperation Council in 1991, formalized by the 1997 Charter on a Distinctive Partnership, pledged membership at Bucharest 2008, and now channeled through the NATO-Ukraine Council (2023), NSATU, and multi-billion-euro aid.
Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement
The Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement (April 30, 2025), signed by Svyrydenko and Bessent, created the US–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (URIF): a 50/50 jointly governed fund financed by new resource-license revenues and US cash or military aid, reinvested in Ukraine.
Ukrainian Air Force (Повітряні Сили Збройних Сил України)
Ukrainian Air Force (Повітряні Сили Збройних Сил України), air branch of Ukraine's armed forces protecting national airspace. Operates MiG-29, Su-27, F-16, and Mirage 2000 fighters plus S-300, Patriot, and NASAMS air defense; denied Russia air superiority since 2022.
Ukrainian alphabet (українська абетка)
The Ukrainian alphabet (українська абетка, also azbuka) is the 33-letter Cyrillic script used for Ukrainian's 38 phonemes, distinct from Russian Cyrillic by Ґ, Є, І, Ї and the absence of Ё, Ъ, Ы, Э.
Ukrainian attacks on the Russian shadow fleet
Ukrainian attacks on the Russian shadow fleet are drone and special-operations strikes by the SBU against the aging tankers Russia uses to export sanctioned oil and fund its war effort.
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church was an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church founded in 1921, repeatedly suppressed, and merged into the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2019.
Ukrainian chronicles
Ukrainian chronicles (літописи, litopysy) are annalistic historical records begun in Kyivan Rus' in the eleventh century, kept by monks and later by Cossack lay authors into the eighteenth century.
Ukrainian Club in the State Duma
The Ukrainian Club in the State Duma, or Ukrainian Duma Hromada, was an association of Ukrainian deputies in the Russian Empire's first two Dumas, 1906 to 1907.
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany (1941–1944): cooperation of Ukrainian administrations, auxiliary police, Waffen-SS volunteers, and OUN nationalists with German occupiers, including roles in the Holocaust, and its contested historiography.
Ukrainian conscription crisis
The Ukrainian conscription crisis: personnel shortfall in Ukraine's armed forces during the Russia war, marked by the 2024 mobilization law, desertion and AWOL cases, busification, and 2026 contract reforms.
Ukrainian cuisine
Ukrainian cuisine (українська кухня): the national culinary tradition of Ukraine, known for borscht (UNESCO-listed, 70+ variants), varenyky, salo, and holubtsi, with strong regional traditions shaped by Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, and Crimean Tatar influences.
Ukrainian desertion crisis
Ukrainian desertion crisis: mass AWOL and desertion in Ukraine's Armed Forces since 2022, rising from about 9,000 cases in 2022 to 165,200 AWOL prosecutions in the first ten months of 2025, with 200,000 soldiers reported AWOL in January 2026.