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Not quite, Ukraine had existed before then. It officially declared independence from Russia on the 25th January 1918, as the Ukrainian People's Republic.
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I guess you treat all other "states" created by the breakdown of the Russian Empire and the Civil War the same way? How about Far Eastern Republic?
Now, I understand Polish claim for their statehood (which is real), but making Ukrainian People's Republic into something more than what it was is a bad idea I think. As next we would be talking about how Ukrainian Cossacks invented submarines by glueing their boats together or about how proto-Ukrainians dug out the Black Sea.