In the mid-10th century, the eastern area of Crimea was conquered by Prince Sviatoslav I of Kiev and became part of the Kievan Rus’ principality of Tmutarakan. Slavs moved to Crimea from the territory of modern Ukraine.
In 1768-1774 the Russian Empiral Army included Ukrainains as well. Ukraine, as the region bordering on the zone of war or being a zone of war, was the main source of soldiers and all sorts of supplies for Suvorov’s army.
Well you should better know:)
Washington owns both of you now - georgia and Ukraine.
Just do not tell us that your Oranges populists are Independent of USA.
Do you want to say that the RF is independent from the US more than Georgia? Please point out some of RF’s independent moves that has run counter to the interests of the US?
Oh so tell me please “true” about Oranges?
I don’t understand who are Oranges.
You mean the MPs of two parliamentary parties?
Aren’t they who sponsored and PRed by USA? Say me please this is Russian brainwash
Sponsored? It is absurd statement. The Ukrainian oligarchs behind all the parliamentary parties are the richest after Russian ones in Europe. Please examplify how some Ukrainian parties are PRed by the US. For instance each Russian news program pours its portion of shit not so much on Ukrainian politicians but on Ukraine on the whole.
So why they did not fight for their independence, but was limited in actions by the robbing?
Limited actions and robbing? They attacked Turkish and Tartar cities, destroying their fortification, eliminating their harnisons and liberating Ukrainian and foreign Christian prisoners. At that time no one dared to do it. They also prevented or limited successful Tartars raids into Ukraine, Poland and Moscovia. By the way do you know that unlike Ukrainian cossacks Polish government regukarly payed tribute to sultan to avoid war with the Ottoman Empire till 1630s and Moscovain tsars payed tribute to Crimean Tartars till the mid XVII century? Crimean Tartars were vassals of the Ottoman Empire nad shared this tribute with sultan. So Moscovian serfs worked not only for tsar but for Khans with their tartars and turkish sultans
Yes they lived in South and “waged the wars” with no sensitive effect.
they were “sovereign tribes” in cuptured , oppressed state, and sad fact ,but unfortinately nobody knew about thier independense:)
Absolutely wrong idea. They were not tribes. Ukrainian cossacks controlled extensive territories in the Southern Ukraine, had its own government, observed only their own laws different from the Polish ones, serfdom was prohibitted there, all the inhabitants of this Ukrainian cossack state were free people unlike Poles most of whom were serfs. Each local inhabitant was obliged to kill a Pole or a jew spotted within the territory of Cossack state. Everyone knew about Ukrainain cossacks in Europe in XVI-XVIII centuries. For instance, Oliver Cromwell had a correspondence with senior Ukrainian cossack warlords while looking for anti-catholic allies in the Eastern Europe.
