The word Cossack comes from the Turkic word meaning “free man” or “outlaw.” True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a semi-nomadic militaristic group originating somewhere in the ...

The real estate developer Steve Witkoff, whom President Trump made his plenipotentiary in foreign conflicts, is either ...

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

March 22, 2025: Desperate to find more justifications for its war in Ukraine, Russia has turned to its small surviving Cossack community to inspire military age Russian men to serve in the military.

To implement this legislation, the Russian Ministry of Culture instructed federal museums to “take patronage” of Ukrainian ...

According to Doluda, not all Ukrainian troops have been trained to use Western-supplied armaments. "All our Cossacks are on combat missions along the frontline - in battles in the DPR and in the ...

a 17th century Cossack leader who defected from the Russian Empire's army to side with King Charles XII of Sweden. Mazepa’s role as the pro-independence leader, and the theme of Ukraine aligning with ...

TASS/. The Volunteer Cossack Sabotage and Reconnaissance Brigade Dnieper has destroyed two Ukrainian scout boats with expensive equipment at the Kinburn Spit in the Kherson area, the brigade’s ...

The assault, which the mayor called the largest on Russia’s capital since the war began, was a reminder of Ukraine’s power to strike as its president proposes an air truce. By Marc Santora and ...