Questions and Answers about
Kyiv
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in HistoryThe United States “temporarily relocated” its diplomatic personnel in Ukraine to Lviv in Feb. 2022. Which empire ruled Lviv until WWI?
Answer: The city of Lviv was part of Galicia, the largest, most populous, and northernmost province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the dissolution of the monarchy at the end of World War I in 1918. On the other hand, Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, was part of the Russian empire, changed hands sixteen times from 1918 to…