Possible Clues:

• Former USSR member
• Kiev's land: Abbr.
• Kiev's country: Abbr
• U.S.S.R. member: Abbr.
• Land on the Sea of Azov: Abbr.
• Kiev is its cap.
• Pres. Yanukovych's nation
• It's east of Pol.
• Kiev loc.
• Black Sea nation: Abbr.