Dec. 8 1991: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine sign an agreement on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Brest.
Dec. 9 1918: The Directory resolves to reinstate the Ukrainian National Republic’s law on an eight-hour working day, the collective labor contracts, and the right to go on strike.
Dec. 10 1637: The Pavlo But-led Cossack and peasant forces rise up against the Polish nobility but suffer a defeat near the town of Borovytsia.
Dec. 11 1991: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolves to establish diplomatic relations with the former Soviet republics.
Dec. 12 1988: The AN-225 (Mria) plane performs a test flight in Kyiv.
Dec. 13 1941: In Kyiv, the Nazis arrest Ukrainian intellectuals who are active members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).
Dec. 14 2004: The Friendship Train leaves Kyiv and goes to Ukraine’s northern and southern regions to tell the local residents the truth about the Maidan.
