Talk:Ukraine

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Islam

Why is Islam not in the demographics? it's the second largest religion. it shows data for hinduism, budhism but not Islam in the graph

Maidan = square

As noted here: "The Euromaidan (Ukrainian: Євромайдан, literally "Eurosquare")" "maidan" is Ukrainian for the English "square."

Hence, "Maidan Nezalezhnosti square" later on belongs in the Department of Redundancy Department. It should read "Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Nezalezhnosti square)." I didn't notice if that mistake was made other places, but it should be corrected. Thanks.

Minor: link to Wikipedia Podzol page in soil section.

In the soil section podzolized soil is mentioned. Might it not be reasonable to link podzolized to the Podzol Wikipedia page as it is an obscure reference.

"Disputed" territories? I'm pretty sure everyone but Russia calls them "occupied"

Change "disputed" to "occupied". 2A02:2F07:B313:1800:F5A6:3139:6D40:BB73 (talk) 12:03, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

That still makes it disputed. --Khajidha (talk) 14:21, 13 December 2021 (UTC)

Alter grammar tense

This sentence here should be past tense: From "On 4 March 2020, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accepts the resignation of the Honcharuk Government and begins the formation of the Shmyhal Government" to "On 4 March 2020, The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine accepted the resignation of the Honcharuk Government and the Shmyhal Government was formed." Gemini.skywalker (talk) 12:29, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

"Kiev compromise" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Kiev compromise and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 21#Kiev compromise until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Jay (talk) 20:17, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 18 January 2022

In the "Recognised regional languages" section of the infobox, please change the Wikitext [[Greek language|Greek]] to [[Modern Greek|Greek]] and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] to [[Modern Hebrew|Hebrew]] as these are the languages spoken in Ukraine today, not their ancient variants. Joesom333 (talk) 16:59, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

 Done ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:39, 19 January 2022 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 January 2022

Change: "The vast majority of the fighting in World War II took place on the Eastern Front.[114] By some estimates, 93% of all German casualties took place there."

To: "The majority of the deaths in the European theater of World War II took place on the Eastern Front.[114] By one man's estimate, 93% of all German casualties took place there, but this is easily disproved by readily available statistical WWII data." (Source below)

NOTE------------------------- Citations 114 and 115 are rather Euro/Ruso centric and easily disproved. 85 million people died in WWII, no one will support half of those were on the easternfront. Additionally the second source for 115 is nothing more than a man's name and not an actual work. It's preposterous to say that 93% of German casualties were on the Eastern front and then disregard that the US took nearly 8 million German Prisoners. Both of those numbers cannot be simultaneously accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#United_States_Army_Figures_for_German_and_Italian_Losses 192.63.67.46 (talk) 03:21, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

1) If it were really that easy to disprove, we wouldn't change it to such a condescending sentence, we would simply remove it. 2) What does the number of prisoners have to do with casualties? Casualties are those killed or injured. --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 05:43, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

 Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit extended-protected}} template. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:05, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

What's happening in Ukraine?

This article contains nothing about the current (late 2021-early 2022) Russian military build-up on Ukraine's border which has dominated international news for the past month. It would be good to at least mention it. Fuzzypeg★ 05:37, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

Add "surreptitious occupation"

Crimea was not simply annexed. It was insidiously occupied by force prior to this. I suggest we modify the following (add capitalized text) "These events formed the background for the ILLEGAL, SURREPTITIOUS OCCUPATION and annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014" 172.58.102.207 (talk) 13:16, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

If a bully comes into my home with a gun...

and claims it's his house and his family, the word "disputed" is absurdly understating the situation, so much so that it is practically incorrect. The "dispute" and "occupation" are TWO DIFFERENT topics, yet they should be simultaneously mentioned. Russia can DISPUTE Ukraine's claim without occupying their territory. If we must be unbiased, "illegally occupied by Russia and disputed" would be far more correct. I'm sure the UN would categorize this occupation as illegal. 172.58.102.207 (talk) 13:29, 23 January 2022 (UTC)