1) Technically what you meant to say was "Italy still doesn't have a new tree", since they were one of the 7 (plus 1 free day-0 DLC) that started with one.just make/get a mod for a ukraine tree. considering that a country like italy still doesn't have a tree along with a lot of starting free nations, ukraine tree likely won't happen in hoi4 (save for modding obviously)
2) By "starting free nations" I assume you mean countries that start on the map on 1 JAN 1936 (or 1 SEP 1939 for that start) that use the Generic Tree, then I agree. All of them should get a tree (even if it is a regionally shared tree like the Chinese Warlords got) before any country that was released during the timeframe of the game (i.e., Croatia) much less a country that didn't exist on the map in any form during the timeframe of the game.
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