Ukraine in German plans for the redistribution of Europe during the First World War (1914-1916)

The paper studies the Ukrainian issue in the context of the policy of the German Empire during the First World War (1914-1916). The author considers the Ukrainian issue in Germany’s plans to reorganize Europe; German state structures and their ways of interaction with national movements. The study demonstrates the change in Germany’s policy towards the Ukrainian movement in the context of the events of the First World War: from supporting plans to organize an uprising in Russia and create a Ukrainian state to curtailing official cooperation and switching to supporting the main competitor of the Ukrainian movement in the struggle for statehood – the Poles.