February 8: 1654. The Pereyaslav Rada took place in which the Cossacks swore loyalty to the Muscovite tsar as their suzerain.
1994. Ukraine in Brussels joined the NATO Partnership for Peace Program.
February 9: 1918. The Brest Peace Treaty was signed, under which Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey recognized Ukraine as an independent state.
1942. The Nazis arrested in Kyiv several representatives of the Ukrainian intelligentsia who were members of the Melnyk wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.
February 10: 1940. The first stage of Soviet deportations from Western Ukraine began, involving 220,000 people.
1963. Workers at the Zaporizhstal plant set a world steel-melting record.
February 11: 1900. The Revolutionary Ukrainian Party, Dnipro Ukraine’s first political organization, was founded.
1989. The founding conference of the Taras Shevchenko Ukrainian Language Society (now the All-Ukrainian Prosvita Society) was held.
February 12: 1936. The first exhibition of Ukrainian folk art was opened in Ukraine.
1991. The Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR resolved to restore the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.
February 13: 1934. The Soviet icebreaker Cheliuskin sank in the Chukotka Sea; the polar expedition was evacuated to an ice floe.
1942. The Nazis began forced slave labor deportations from occupied Ukrainian territories to Germany.
February 14: 1921. A peace treaty was signed between the Ukrainian SSR and Lithuania.
1943. Soviet forces of the Southwestern Front took Voroshylovhrad (now Luhansk) from the Nazis.
