True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a semi-nomadic militaristic group originating somewhere in the 15th century — are renowned as sovereign warriors and pioneers of independence in ...

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November 25, 2024: Russia, desperate to find more manpower to reinforce their troops in Ukraine, has turned to its small Cossack population. Russia made a deal with the Cossack leadership to persuade ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Asparagus of the Cossacks” inScientific American Magazine Vol. 3 No. 47(August 1848), p. 370doi:10.1038/scientificamerican08121848-370j ...

KHORTYTSIA, Ukraine — This lush, wild island, the largest on the Dnipro River, is just outside the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, not far from the front line where Ukrainian soldiers are trying to ...

Cossacks are first mentioned in the 15th century as freedom-loving ex-serfs, Tatars and descendants of Scythian warriors living on the open plains of southern Ukraine and Russia’s Don River basin.

Dominic and Tom discuss the next deadly stage of the Great Northern War: from action-packed military conquests, to great betrayals, and the outbreak of Europe's greatest battle… Show more ...

The Zaporizhzhian Cossacks held out until Catherine the Great, one of the Russian empire's most formidable leaders, disbanded them in 1775. But today, Kopishinskyi says, the Russians are weak.