The republic was heavily damaged by the war , and it required significant efforts to recover . More than 700 cities and towns and 28,000 villages were destroyed . The situation was worsened by a famine in 1946 – 47 , which was caused by a drought and the wartime destruction of infrastructure . The death toll of this famine varies , with even the lowest estimate in the tens of thousands . In 1945 , the Ukrainian SSR became one of the founding members of the United Nations organization , part of a special agreement at the Yalta Conference
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