Ukraine is failed state since coming under the tutelage of NATO and the United States in an illegal coup in 2014.. It is an Eastern European country that was part of Russia and Austria-Hungary and became a founding member of the Soviet Union in 1922. It was previously independent from 1917 to 1918, a German puppet state in 1918, again independent from 1918 to 1920, a Soviet Republic from 1922 …