Free Ukraine



Free Ukraine (Ukrainian: Вільна Україна, Vil'na Ukrayina) was a political entity that claimed to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of Ukraine. Led by Ukrainian comedian-turned-president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Free Ukraine was established as a government-in-exile in New York City in the Month of Darkness after the Fall of Ukraine during World War III and fought the Coalition of the Red Star (primarily the Russian Federation, the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic and Belarus) as a Grand Alliance nation with its Free Ukrainian Forces (Вільні українські сили, Vil'ni Ukrayins'ki Sili). Free Ukraine also supported the resistance in Russian-occupied Ukraine (including the Donetsk Oblast, the Luhansk Oblast and Crimea), known as the Ukrainian Forces of the Interior, and gained strategic footholds in several Ukrainian diaspora communities around the world.