the northern rim of the Black Sea. Main. rortructiiiirti lf' ry wesara t COMM Ant,. lrt2 I rri-t. O • Jiro. • s, 4 p GIN. MOW, en IICOSS,Okr0,1 165o to 1812 Fast forward a few centuries, and you see how the land that's now Ukraine lay on the margins of competing empires. It was a region of