This Really Pisses me Off

Something that really pisses me off, that I, along with other people probably see all the time is people that say "the Ukraine" it is not the United States, there is some weird grammatical difference between them that I cannot think of at the moment, but really, since I have started to follow soccer much more on the World scale, I have seen that people outside the US, know to the just Ukraine, but people here seem to have some aversion to knowing how to speak well. I always hear people here asking why I didn't go to "the Ukraine" well that is because I would like to go to Ukraine, but can't go to "the Ukraine". And that is that.