The sleepy city, around 350 kilometres (220 miles) east of Kyiv, was the scene of a decisive June 1709 battle when the forces ...

Russian officials understand that and since late 2023 have persuaded over 20,000 Cossacks to fight in Ukraine. Russia hopes to recruit more because Russia is running out of Russian soldiers. The ...

Laughter escaped from the group. Some were sporting fresh osedelets haircuts, a hallmark of the Cossack soldier. Like every week, a long line had formed to get to see a trio of barbers and ...

It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast, that they made the ...

Opposition to Trump has not yet gelled, but he is making an impressive number of enemies at home and abroad. These are ...

It’s Cossack to the future for the beleaguered ... X last month as he posted a video from Telegram reportedly showing soldiers from Sakha Republic in Russia’s far east on horseback.

The hoofed mammals carry supplies and soldiers to avoid the attention of ... Many Ukrainians are proud of their country’s Cossack heritage, a seminomadic people famed for their equestrian ...

A large close-knit family of Antonina Yevtushenko from Brest cherishes the invaluable family heirloom: their grandfather’s handwritten book “The Life Path of Georgy Koblov”.

The enemy came to kill “khokhols” – a slur Russians use for Ukrainians, stemming from Cossack ancestry. So he took it as his callsign. If they came to destroy him, he would ensure they failed. Khokhol ...

Since Russia’s occupation of Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula in 2014, Ukrainian journalists have faced intimidation and violence.

An all-female cast is taking on “Hetman,” a play based on the life of Ivan Mazepa, a 17th century Cossack leader who defected from ... spend much of their time supporting Ukrainian soldiers, weaving ...