The warrior Cossacks of Ukraine - BBC News

For hundreds of years, a tiny island in the Dnieper River provided sanctuary to a legendary group of warriors - Ukraine's Zaporozhian Cossacks. The men moved to Khortytsia in the 15th Century in search of freedom and democracy, as Andriy Kravets from the BBC's Ukrainian service reports.
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[@lloyddutchsmiley1147]

Bloody hell, the BBC are actually capable of making an unbiased column. Interesting stuff, always loved the Cossack's.

[@Andrij_Kozak]

Thanks for the love.

[@Levnerad]

The reporter is Ukrainian probably

[@esterherschkovich6499]

I agree with you..re BBC!

[@jurajkovacik2430]

wrong my friend, it is the politics supporting ukrain - everything super....the spirit of the video is very fresh and good, they wont do this with for instance russian cossacs.....they do it more morously.....(and by the way ukrainian cossacs were not so brave-maybe in the fight one to one, but were more of the small groups fighting for whom paid more and very often ravaging and stealing the villages in the territory where they were located as mercenaries...once they fought for polish then for another.....mercenaries...russian cossacs on the aother hand-that is- those from river DON and not from river DNESTER- were real warriors-disciplined fighting only to one master whom they oathed the service for ever-russian tsar in this case...and no changing all the time the masters like dnester cossacs....thats history...)

[@esterherschkovich6499]

@@jurajkovacik2430 Wow an interesting read.Thank you.

[@LichlordKazam]

I mean, vikings,samurai, knights,conquistador and janissaries are cool. But the zaporozhian cossacks have always been my favorite since childhood! Even though i'm not eastern european.

[@misszoe6293]

Jannisaries is army of kidnapped children, they were slaves of Ottoman impere. Than kossaques were free men, they love freedom, they gought for freedom also with janničares.

[@polleon9602]

@@misszoe6293 Are you serious jannisaries created with choosed children who were powerfull large wrists and families are going crazy happiness about when they children choosed to jannisarrie barrack because they children go and get highest education highest elegancity with that They going İSTANBUL capital of world on these times don't be hollywood sheep read the history memoirs :)

[@mrsnoop1820]

@@polleon9602 nope

[@polleon9602]

@@mrsnoop1820 yep

[@mrsnoop1820]

@@polleon9602 *nope

[@zadokthestoryteller6590]

My ancestors are from China and I support Ukraine. We are the minority here but we are vocal. No one can brainwash us.

[@andreiyevanov]

G0t0 Hell.

[@LashiLashi1]

@@andreiyevanov Слава Україні!

[@ioannis7744]

@@LashiLashi1 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[@antonikudlicki1100]

I respect that. I feel sorry about how Chineese government and a couple of particular despicable individuals made all those tensions between Chineese minority and broader Ukrainian society. Stay strong out there!

[@Eowynnofrohan]

love and respect. thanks for thinking for yourself and choosing to be free.

[@kevting4512]

Ukrainian ancestors smile down upon them as they defend their homeland from invaders! 💪

[@ioannis7744]

The ancestors of ukrainians were Russians so now they are not smiling. They are sad that their children are killing each other because zelensky is a western puppet and a clown. They chant from their graves "za pobiedu"

[@crush42mash6]

My grandfather came to Canada from Ukraine and he was a Cossack. Never really wanted to talk much about it so unfortunately we don’t have much information, but we do have a picture of him on a horse in the early 1900s in full garb

[@benitorex541]

Нехай твій дідусь спочиває з миром!

[@donnyexoduz3356]

I have a hunch that one of my great-grandfathers was a cossack Maybe not from Zaporozhia, though, as I think that part of my family is from Galicia away from that part of Ukraine. My Grandfather recalled that he was over 6 feet tall, rode a horse through the national parks, and had a sword. I wish I had more information but yeah

[@cheriecollins3848]

@@donnyexoduz3356 I wonder where Aussie Cossack may end up next Prime Minister, make sure him and his family alright thanks

[@avalonjustin]

That is awesome, be proud of his strength and tradition💪

[@cliveengel5744]

So Cossack part of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine and part of the Russian Empire lands that became Ukraine in 1922. Don, Kuban and Zaporizhzia Cossacks.

[@Subher0]

what a wonderful cultural history, one of which many are jealous. The Cossack spirit is free and unbroken. Slava Ukraini!

[@Hugh-Glass]

God speed the Ukrainian warrior

[@user-yy9dj4pk9g]

Героям слава ! Ukrainians fighters today are real Cossacks

[@user-ky6tu5cj9c]

Sadly this history is almost dead because of the ethnic genocide against Russian speaking peoples in Ukraine. That is why many of us move to Russia to escape.

[@Subher0]

@@user-ky6tu5cj9c Good. Stay in Russia, where you belong.

[@user-ky6tu5cj9c]

@@Subher0 you are a very bad person but I do wish the best for you in life.

[@scheissefresser2002]

greetings from zaporizhia! proud of our history

[@tatyanamelnikoff9578]

meme--greetings!

[@filipjoldzic7368]

The people of donbass and the rest of Novorossiya are proud of their history too. That is why they want to be part of Russia and not Ukraine.

[@ronweasley9819]

@@filipjoldzic7368 Eat slugs!

[@anna-if8fi]

@@filipjoldzic7368 the land is Ukrainian if they want to be Russian they’d move a few miles towards the Russian border but they don’t and instead choose war not everyone in eastern Ukraine wants to be a part of Russia that’s why the land cannot just be given away

[@filipjoldzic7368]

@@anna-if8fi The land was once given away, to Ukraine by Lenin. The Donbass and the black sea coast was never cossack land but was conquered and settled during empress Catherine's reign. Russia is only taking back its property.

[@upgrade1015]

They need you now more than ever ! Stay safe warriors

[@protosszergs5323]

Люблю Украину и украинцев.никакая политика не сможет это изменить.Привет из Чечни.

[@user-go1gh2qf4s]

Слава Ичкерии

[@ingvarz7468]

ты не Чеченец.

[@cemoya3197]

Dzham Isaev війна це вже не політика...

[@basedpro-ua3470]

*If you like Cossack culture you have to see this rap about Cossacks 🇺🇦!* *kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGrbhmebe9R3eLM*

[@user-pm3db5kn6n]

Свободу ічкерії!

[@WolfShaman777]

My mother's mother is from the Ukraine, I live in Canada. I am very happy to see the old traditions still alive. Much love and peace, freedom and pride in this! 💪❤

[@user-xj9gp2sm5u]

Welcome back to the country of your ancesters.

[@johnnyboogalo4897]

Im from canada too and my girlfriend is ukrainian canadian and comes from line of cossacks feels good

[@user-xj9gp2sm5u]

@@johnnyboogalo4897 take care of her and God bless you both.

[@dfui.]

You mean your mother is a Bandera shaytaan?

[@teovu5557]

Fun fact: cossack word is a borrowing from Turkic word Kazakh meaning freeman/rebel/warrior etc

[@chadgaston8615]

They here up north were known as elite soldiers of the tsar who were used for instance to suppress riots. Moscow hooligans looted, Zelenskys cossacks protect order.

[@mariaber3567]

I love Ukraine, very beautiful country 😍😍😍

[@Mitchery]

Beautiful without that murderous dictator known as Poroshenko

[@Andrij_Kozak]

@@Mitchery Putin is 20 years in power and Poroshenko just 5 years. Who is the dictator now ?

[@olhasem9159]

With very honest , brave and beautiful people. Ukraine is Europe. Ukraine is a cradle of modern democracy and civilization.

[@Andrij_Kozak]

@@olhasem9159 not anymore if Zelenskiy & Tymoshenko come to power. They will destroy Ukraine.

[@upaaoc2813]

I am Ukrenian you coment is gud

[@user-si2ig3pf7e]

Respect Ukraine from Serbia. Slava!!🇷🇸🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@user-xm8lc1om6w]

Ukrainians hate us.

[@user-si2ig3pf7e]

@@user-xm8lc1om6w Why? Your comment is ridiculous.

[@sviat_a_lite9882]

@@user-xm8lc1om6w Це не правда. Українці не проявляють агресії до вас

[@mrmarksman718]

@@user-si2ig3pf7e probably because chetniks went to ukraine to fight on the russian side?

[@therubinator1]

Both of my Grandparents were immigrants from Ukraine in 1907. My Grandfather was an orphan from an early age, I am not sure who raised him. It was told to us that we are descended from Cossacks. This was so moving to me because I have always felt Pagan at heart, and that my Ukrainian blood runs deep. I feel that cultural knowledge is transferred to us through our blood in some ways. This spoke so deeply to me, I am so grateful to have seen this and look forward to going to Ukraine someday to help, but also to go to the villages where my ancestors are from. My father brought back soil from my Grandfather's village which we cherish. The thatched roof house he grew up in was still there.

[@boafeng2588]

Cossacks were not pagans, they were Orthodox

[@Borya42]

Cossacks were orthodox, not pagan. You larps are embarrassing.

[@rodjarrow6575]

In 1907, there was no Ukraine as a separate state! Because the word Ukraine in the Slavic language of the Russian Empire throughout history was called the perimeter of the border land line of the entire Empire from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea, the White Sea and the Japanese Sea! 2) Cossacks are not a people, this is the oldest Russian estate whose business was the border guard service of the russian border, which is why Cossack settlements are traditionally located along the perimeter of the Russian border... Representatives of many peoples of Russia were part of the Cossack estate of the Russian Empire, these are: Russians, Tatars, Caucasian peoples, as well as Buryats and Yakuts and others... I remind you that all modern Ukrainians called themselves Russians throughout the entire period of history before the formation of the USSR and the beginning of the Soviet communist policy of "Ukrainization" in USSR.

[@proudtitanicdenier4300]

​@@rodjarrow6575hilarious rant. You skipped the part when cossack states such as the zaporizhian sich had wars against Russia. Not to "protect russias borders"

[@rodjarrow6575]

@@proudtitanicdenier4300 You have written ridiculous nonsense that exists only in the propaganda of lies for ignorance! Because the Cossack state has never existed in the history of Europe! Because this is nonsense: A BORDER STATE or A STATE OF BORDER GUARDS! Do you understand what I'm talking about? Therefore, find out from the dictionary Codex Cumanicus (dictionary of the Polovtsian language) what the Polovtsian word Cossack means - it is literally a guard, a border guard. Alas, a border guard is not a nationality, not people.

[@slenderlutaya3006]

I love Ukraine,I had never thought of checking about their traditional before the war,I am African but I really love Ukrainians,Slava Ukraine.

[@Eowynnofrohan]

i also knew not much about Ukraine before the war. I knew almost nothing about Cossacks and Ukraine history.

[@GermanHockey]

I will go here one day. Cossacks have very little history over here in america but as a history student I know they were brave and courageous heroes.

[@MikleMarksman]

Ukraine is not only cossacks, and not only embroidery. Ukraine is like a curse and a kiss to God. Existence, Nature and Love in this country dance in a time cemetery. Come to us in Ukraine, there is a lot of work for historians. (Nikopol (Dnipropetrovsk Region) ) And Ukrain song kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZawZZeOqJeVrsk

[@user-ox3gs8no1t]

Very interesting film, thanks to BBC. I am as a citizen of Zaporizhzhia saw our island from a new side. This river island is so big in sizes and its rich and acient history

[@interspeciesfamily8043]

UKRAINE... so many friends from/in a country where those I know, have an incredible connection to nature. Spirit connections.

[@Schmusbek21898]

Cossaks look sooooo badass, as a Georgian i Love ukrainian Warrior mode

[@bleedthefreak9720]

I live in Zaporozhia on right river bank! Привет из Запорожья!!!

[@goniakarczewska3966]

Wygrasz Ukraino! Dumni Kozacy! jestem z Wami - Polska

[@rodjarrow6575]

Jesteś typowym europejskim frajerem, który połknął haczyk kłamliwej propagandy o Kozakach, która milczy od 9 lat o tym, że Kozacy dzisiaj (9 lat już) walczą w Donbasie przeciwko Europejskiej okupacji Ukrainy przez drani NATO Począwszy od 2014 roku, zamachu stanu w Kijowie, którego na Ukrainie dokonali dranie NATO! Wschodnia Ukraina to kraina Kozaków, którzy nigdy w historii nie byli posłuszni europejskim oszustom!

[@rodjarrow6575]

Dumni Kozacy bronią Wschodu Ukrainy, bronią Donbas, bronią Doniecka i Ługańska (tradycyjnej ziemi kozaków), bronią swojej ziemi przez 9 lat, począwszy od 2014 roku, rozpoczęcia inwazji okupantów NATO na Ukrainę. NATO dokonało zamachu stanu na Ukrainie w 2014 i okupowało Kijów 2014 i zasadziło marionetkową władzę w Kijowie i podporządkowało Kijów Waszyngtonowi i Londynowi! Polacy w ramach tego NATO od 9 lat walczą z Kozakami - którym z pomocą przyszła tylko Rosja w 2022! Program edukacyjny od obywatela Ukrainy, z terytorium wschodniej Ukrainy, którego nie udało się zająć natowskim draniom w 2014...

[@thebigcheese8169]

@@rodjarrow6575 znalazł się ruski agent. Pisałeś to wszystko nadaremno

[@TheClann1]

Slava Ukraini. best warriors of the world. love from your friends in Scotland.

[@kunik61]

Thank you for telling everyone about our history. About our nation of warriors.

[@kostiamarich]

Zaporizhzhia... My hometown))

[@kvas6255]

We don’t say “be a Kozak”, we say “Терпи козак, отоманом будеш” which translates to be strong kozak you will be an ataman, which is a leader of a Kozak village or camp.

[@hasanchoudhury5401]

Best regards from USA.

[@petercklauhk]

Glory to Ukraine

[@XiaoYueMao]

anyone know where I can buy Cossack clothes/uniforms online (like for daily wear)? I cant find anything ;(

[@emigrant4life]

The Grandfathers of Ukrainian Warriors

[@zakhust6840]

@@koro741 You call him stupid but you sound stupid yourself.

[@dannypqliar8763]

@@zakhust6840 Sounding stupid and being stupid are two different things. Manhunt doesn't know history, so he *is factually stupid*. And so are you. Cossacks were ALL OVER THE PLACE. But the BBC decided to omit that in order to make Ukrainian ones look like fighters for freedom. You dumbass...

[@zakhust6840]

​@@dannypqliar8763Historically speaking, While there were many important settlements in Russia, The First Cossacks and Most Cossack Settlements were located within Ukrainian territory and other territories which historically belonged to Ukraine (i.e Kuban, Don, etc. which were taken by Russia afterwards during Imperial Times and then Soviet times) (And no, nobody cares if you think ukraine didn't exist back on the times of first Cossack settlements, it's still Ukrainian territory) If we talk about the video itself, the video is about Ukrainian Cossacks in Zaporizhia, not Russian Cossacks or even any general history of Cossacks, and not a single time on the video Ukrainian freedom fighters or the current Situation of Ukraine or anything of what you're talking about was mentioned, you're just clearly trying to change things of how they really are, Who's the Dumbass now? Dickhead.

[@tarqscam8491]

Slava Ukraine. May you gain your history.

[@obscurecharacter5510]

3:06 >cossacks >pagans Wat? Rly? They fought for the Christian Orthodox faith...

[@alxiba78]

Cossacks-characters, elite warriors, were descendants of pagan wise men and kept their knowledge and faith. They were raised from childhood in pagan traditions and were not admitted to the church.

[@skywillfindyou]

@@alxiba78 They never were "elite".

[@alxiba78]

@@skywillfindyou ok, "rare, specialized". P.S. if you are russian, dont answer, fuck off

[@user-mc5wc5jm4f]

@@alxiba78 "They were raised from childhood in pagan traditions and were not admitted to the church." The Cossacks were never Pagan. Historically speaking, in order to join the Cossacks then you had to be an Orthodox Christian.

[@DragonEmperor-fi9ov]

@Рюрик Ярославич I have heard about group of atheistic Cossacks whos murdered thousands jews in Ukraine and Poland.

[@user-ys8sr6gc1p]

When the world needed them most; they were there🟢

[@phil3038]

Looking at the history of the Cossacks, they were a group of people who wanted freedom, people from all walks of life who naturally came together because of a common desire to be free. Today we can see how Ukrainians still have this desire, they fight with more determination than anyone expected, they still have the Cossack blood flowing through their veins, Slava Ukraine, I await the day you take Victory against Russia 🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@brose2323]

Now they have traded their Sabres for Kalashnikovs.

[@chadgaston8615]

Javelins.

[@WalterWhite_2077]

I always thought that the wild ones (Olgierds company) from the witcher 3 was based on cossacks. Both the look and the attitudes checks out.

[@interestingfamilyorigin3574]

A beautiful island love the Cossacks respecting the land keeping their traditions alive keeping their faith/religions alive and teaching/passing it on to the next generation.. Something that not many countries/people do now days.. A great deal of respect to them( the Cossacks)god bless ✝️

[@Soviless99]

i love the cossacks! i have roots in poland and lithuania on my mothers side!

[@mykolaj1110]

they were an order of Orthodox Christians and knights, Slavs, heirs of Kievan Rus, and this is present-day Ukraine, some Cossacks served Poland, but most of them were separate and free military structures.

[@antonikudlicki1100]

You gotta see the Turkish Sultan - Cossaks letters, that's some wild shit

[@Soviless99]

@@antonikudlicki1100 oh i know of thaf🤣

[@SergeiFragov]

Great camera work!

[@user-fy3lg1hu2i]

third time i've watched this, immense respect for the cossacks; some even look a fair bit like my grand father

[@chilesauce7248]

#Cossacks awesome! #Ukraine

[@mariyabronnik]

I live in Zaporizhya :)

[@Damian.99]

Слава Україні

[@mariyabronnik]

@@Damian.99 Героям слава!

[@pyana_bilka]

Слава нації

[@kostiamarich]

привет с Шевчика

[@mariyabronnik]

@@kostiamarich и тебе привет, только с Космоса)

[@SiKincring]

Ottoman sultan watching this video while reading "the letter"

[@user-hf8zv7qw4l]

😂😂😂

[@gijbfhjm]

thank you Britain, God bless you, love from UA

[@futurequagmire6199]

My ancestors 😃🇺🇦⚔️🐎

[@Lipton3373]

Scrappy zohan coco they are turkic

[@godzzilacarioca8580]

@@Lipton3373 they fight turks

[@YaverMemolibaba]

@@godzzilacarioca8580 no they fought Ottoman muslims, not "turks"..lot of turkic people where christian too back then, like Pechenegs, Cuman-Kipchaks and so on..Khazara Khanate where even Jewish for crying out loud!

[@futurequagmire6199]

@@Lipton3373 they are both Slavic or turkic or a mix of both just like me that's why I said it lol 🇺🇦

[@futurequagmire6199]

@@papazataklaattiranimam yeah but they weren't just turkic they were a mix of almost all the people within traveling distance who wanted to defend our land

[@lu4goldenchild]

Usyk brought me here.

[@kenny5577]

Same

[@dwaynelewis7113]

Same

[@wilmerbesitan1200]

They look like a mix of Nordic, Slavic and Nomadic warriors

[@mykolaj1110]

In general, yes, but they are more civilized than the Vikings, they were an order of Orthodox Christians and knights, the Slavs of the heirs of Kievan Rus, they also made trips to Moscow, Poland, and also by sea to Turkey in order to free hostages on their "drakkars", they only called they are their "seagulls", they were also free Cossacks, and were with the citizenship of the Commonwealth.

[@Andrew-xv1qi]

Я рождён в Запорожье,и как и мои предки,я защищал эту землю в боях от нечести!

[@ogPETEtv]

I found out my family was Cossack before they fled to America kinda cool

[@Lou-sn4xo]

Slava Kazakam! May Christ be with you, my brothers.

[@Ivan_StandWithUkraine]

«Kazaks» is a Russian word for Cossacks. Despite russian Kazaks are of Ukrainian origin, they served to tzar. Ukrainian Cossacks always served to Ukrainian people and Orthodox faith.

[@Lou-sn4xo]

I'm aware. I'm also aware that Kazakam is the better form of the word for this sentence.

[@qokandavalanches6077]

@@Ivan_StandWithUkraine kazak is turkic word, no russian. Подражатели тюркам.

[@Ivan_StandWithUkraine]

@@qokandavalanches6077 I mean "kazak" vs "kozak" spelling. After the original Turk word was adopted by both Ukrainian and Russian.

[@KAZAK-TATAR-MONGOL-TURK-8346]

👍👌

[@jbossnack]

My father comes from outside Odessa. I wonder if any of them were Cossacks?

[@MikleMarksman]

Cossack Sections located on the banks of the Dnieper. But they were of the nature of summer (warm) battle camps. Most of the Cossacks had families and homes, engaged in agriculture. But one day bad news came to Khutor (Peaceful Settlement) that required intervention. Kozaki took food on the road, said goodbye to families, prayed. Then the trained and armed mounted a horse and rode to Sich. Even some Germans were Kozaks, what can we say about the Odessa region.Here is a picture of seeing off to Sich.upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Provody_na_Sich.jpg But I'm not talking about everyone. There were many Cossacks single and young. Going through school life. There were hired Kozaki "Registered". But this is a big and complicated story.

[@mykolaj1110]

At the time of the Cossacks in Ukraine, Odessa was under the rule of the Crimean Khanate, but your last name “Bossnack”, in Ukrainian "Босняк" has a little Ukrainian roots, maybe your last name in Ukrainian was “Bosnyak”, so everything maybe, you think I have the roots of the Slavs.

[@pyana_bilka]

В Одесі дуже красиво 💞

[@jbossnack]

@@mykolaj1110 from what more I've learned the name was spelled Bosnak back into the 1700s and they were Slavs from Yugoslavia region. However thats just that one family. There were other German influenced family names Ahman, Becker and Wolfe are some that I learned about. They were farmers and also soldiers. My grandmothers father Adam Becker was a soldier in the Russian Royal Army and fought for the Czar. He was an old man when the Soviets arrived. I don't know much about my fathers family as he was born 1937 and 1942 the Soviets came in tanks and scattered his family. I read about the Cossacks and I see they were a strong proud people that anyone could have pride in being a part of.

[@mykolaj1110]

@@jbossnack of course it may be that you have Slavic roots and roots of the Cossacks, your surname in Ukrainian has something similar to the Ukrainian word barefoot, that is, a person who may have had bad shoes or walked barefoot, on this Ukrainian site you can write your last name and find out where people live with her ridni.org/karta/босняк, you can still use this site that allegedly searches for DNA, unless of course they really do not cheat there - www.myheritage.com/dna?FRESHMANIA_dnasale&tr_funnel=mh+dna&tr_ad_group=yt&tr_creative=de you have a huge probability of the roots of the Cossacks if your father is the same as that of all Ukrainians, because the Cossacks lived throughout Ukraine and even in Poland in the service of the king, they were called reiester, and there were other Cossacks who wanted privileges and some autonomy as part of the Polish Rzeczpospolita and they fought for their rights, but when they achieved success, they were squeezed between 3 huge states, namely Muscovy, the Crimean Khanate and the Polish Commonwealth itself, against which they began to fight for their rights and the statehood of Ukraine as part of the Polish Commonwealth , here in this video it is about the Cossacks from Ukraine, I advise you not to read Russian sources on this matter, because their cossacks appeared much later and has nothing to do with the Zaporozhye Cossacks that were in Ukraine, Russia simply steals the history of Ukraine, because its own she is not there, she steals the history of Kievan Rus and the history of the Cossacks in Ukraine, calling them her own, Bohdan Khmelnitsky who fought with Poland for Ukraine it was squeezed between 3 states concluded an alliance from Muscovy, but gradually Muscovy betrayed all these alliances and treaties and changed all of them for about 100 years, and the Zaporozhye Sich was disbanded and many Cossacks went to the territory of Rostov to hide from oppression, some of them began to serve the tsar, but these were already other Cossacks not free as before, but in Ukraine there were many uprisings and the Ukrainians made a huge contribution to the collapse of the empire because in Ukraine it was necessary to keep a huge military contingent in order to restrain the uprisings, that is, Muscovy occupied Ukraine and betrayed their treaties, even now after March 2014 at this time she occupied Crimea and unleashed a war in eastern Ukraine in order to exchange it for the Crimea captured by her, Ukraine has been holding it back for 7 years, and before that the Kremlin puppets in the Ukrainian government were breaking up the army and destabilizing, and then in March 2014, Russia occupied Crimea and then started a war in Donbass, and all through what di on the Independence Square in Ukraine in Kiev they threw off the puppet of Putin Yanukovych, who canceled the association of Ukraine with the EU, although he promised to sign it earlier so that people would choose him, now Russia is "taking revenge" and pretending that there is a "civil war" in Ukraine, but in reality in fact, this is not the case, it is Russia that wants to keep Ukraine in its sphere of influence as it was under the Soviet Union, this is how Ukraine and to this day holds back a huge horde that comes from the east, so it was during the times of Kievan Rus, the Rech Pospolita and the great kingdom of Lithuania and to today.

[@agoogleaccount2861]

That hull design is quite unique

[@JarodFarrant]

Happy to see the true Cossack traditions survived and are making a comeback.

[@user-ub2zu2tg8s]

Супер

[@coachhousemarketingintuiti3614]

Can we work on changing the spelling to "Kozaks"🙏🇺🇦?

[@tiinau6562]

Kultur i varje land över hela världen.. 🦋👍🍀

[@Hlaford2009]

brilliant!

[@Sam-Lawry]

My grand grand grand pa was one of them during Alex 3,he was in the coffin with one 'shaska' a St Anna. It was a not a blood,it's a spirit of liberty,probably from Mogols and tatars (he was tatar),but they also did some stuff without honor like during the revolution or ww2 (but in that s case...with the famine from stalin,I can understand). It's like a mercenaries elite.

[@antonskrypka8342]

You confused the Don Cossacks of Tsarist Russia and the Zaporizhzhya Cossacks

[@ARTEMK01]

прекрасні люди

[@Serega84UA]

Amazing movie!

[@romybank]

So proud of my family ancestry. Grandfather’s side were Don Cossacks. Grandmother’s side Zaporishia Cossacks.

[@sakyd]

Cossacks are really different group culture Come the Before İslam Turkic Era but soldier ethnic slavic.

[@DeeTeaDee]

Oleksandr Usyk brought me here

[@FXHUND-pk3gk]

I hope they're ok

[@LewisMcLeod1]

Anyone else here after hearing about the Cossacks from Olexandr Usyk?

[@SundayUk]

Cossacks were a natural part of Ukrainians not for hundreds years, but for thousands years. They were representatives of ainciant Ukrainian national identity: sarmatians and skolotois. Cossaсks outfit, cossacks appearance, even cossacks hear cut were indicating or reflecting skolotois culture, having brought from the depth of ages. In addition, Ukrainian language contains a lot from skolotois language; furthermore, Ukrainian rivers bringing skolotois names, a lot of geographic spots bring skolotois names. It is known that Ukrainians genetic makeup has a vast amount of skolotois and sarmatians genes, Ukrainian mentality has been exhibiting free spirit of those ainciant nations so far.

[@eldarhighelfhealermiriella7653]

They look like the soldiers in Mount And Blade Bannerlord :)

[@cyberpunksoldier5047]

Watched movies and history about the cossacks and how they fought against mongols and ottomans very amazing people! Hope these Cossacks are still alive after this horrible war that came over this amazing Ukraine

[@alicangol3362]

i read tolstoys cossacks its wonderful book and i would love playing cossacks game when i was a kid then they saying nobre whats that mean

[@irenejanketic2638]

You mean "dobre"? That means "good".

[@user-pl3zh8lu3i]

why i understand this???!!! greeyings from Serbia

[@timax4114]

@Pax Sarmatica Serbs are Sarmatian

[@sunu84]

Beautiful

[@cheriecollins3848]

Global prayers for the Cossack especially Aussie Cossack,could you find out where they are at,next PM

[@zoltanmatei424]

have all the particle accelerators switched off originator souls are able to track matter flows in varoius naturally occuring forms, but the unnatural ones are maybe not tracked so correctly such as particle beams wich instead collide with souls as those have a high speed, but i doubt near speed of light speed or i doubt near limitation speed speed this sounds strange because you are used to souls belonging to other dimension, however souls and originator souls are both in this 3 dimensions but acting on the message level so particle message speed is what those have without concerning mass but the highspeed beams of particles do hit the soul constructs because there is touch interaction in between the two (such as flow tracking flow following)

[@Jake-qc3mj]

The Ukrainians could use the Cossacks about now.

[@andreiyevanov]

Ukrainian Slvas are fighting Russian Slvas. Ukrainian Cossacks are running for shelter in Europe. 😂😂😂

[@TheRuthlessEAZY]

@@andreiyevanov Ukrainian Slavs are fighting Russian orcs, who arrive in ukraine in one piece and leave in a box, in however many pieces they could collect.

[@user-nt1ec5gs7j]

Amazing film!!!! Ukrainian Cossacks - this is the real warriors. Russian - fake. Thank you BBC. 100/10.

[@odysseaintime]

+Козак Тур true Cossacks from Ukraine, russian cossacks are copies - they are fake Cossacks

[@mdgsk824]

Ironically Ukraine only exists b/c of russia. It's like Belarus. Who's the copy here?

[@svartorivigt5016]

Ironically Ukraine only exists b/c of Kievan Rus'. It's like Belarus and Russia. Who's the copy here?

[@disco_slav_98]

+Apartheid Required Kievan Rus is older than all other slavic countries so and its on present day ukraine, it has the word Rus so what it has word kiev too. Ukraine existed before just under diffrent name. and what do u guys mean ukraine exists cuz of russia when russia has always been supressing the exisistance of ukraine.

[@hairyass100]

russia and ukraine is same shit dumbass.

[@valleyviewing]

I do admire Cosak. I witnessed Gorkha, Konyak and Jaravi. Nothin else above Ahom or Laos ❤

[@claudianisipasu4014]

Slava Ukraine! !!!

[@pescavelho6151]

Why are people so mad at this video?

[@andriysultanov9208]

Some of them are influenced by recent Russian propaganda, and considering how aggressive today Russia is, it's understandable. They don't consider Ukraine a valid independent nation, and think that its land belongs to Russia.

[@lanceonduty5902]

Just found out that most of my ancestors are Cossacks

[@cantshootthis]

Travis Phillips I'm descended from them too, believe it or not

[@samvodopianov9399]

Im Cossack from my mothers side

[@alekshukhevych2644]

@@samvodopianov9399 Russian cossacks though I presume!

[@samvodopianov9399]

@@alekshukhevych2644 Well yes and no - Vaschenko is the lastname. From my fathers side they are from Ukraine but not Cossacks... but from my mothers side they are ones that were deported to Siberia.

[@alekshukhevych2644]

@@samvodopianov9399 I see, ones that were deported to siberia were Don cossacks?

[@ArmoredGauntlet]

I wonder if that horseback riding technique came from interaction or inter breeding with the mongols?

[@groundzero5708]

Lol no steppe pastoralists

[@princekrazie]

why do you have weird voiceovers? why can't they just put on subtitles

[@user-fo9pu9wq1g]

Great warriors of all history

[@kravic5003]

Ukraine was the only democratic country in 15-18th century in Europe

[@dragooll2023]

Funny because ukraine only started to exist in 1991 😂

[@user-qf9fk5fc4z]

Я понимаю, что вы имеете в виду, но для кого вы такое пишете такое? Для дегенератов неучей вроде Фаусто? Вы думаете они читали Жана-Бенуа Шерера, Гийома Левассера де Боплана, Проспера Мериме, Вольтера, Пьера де Шевалье. Всех и не упомнишь европейских авторов и, между прочим, свидетелей тех лет и событий, которые описывали Гетьманщину, козацкую вольницу и как все это планомерно уничтожалось Российской империей. Кому вы пишете такое? Это же дремучий лес в голове и потемки в знаниях.

[@sviat_a_lite9882]

@@dragooll2023 Nah, you're wrong

[@Broski2322]

World warriors !

[@sergiosergio7902]

👍👍👍

[@vdovicencodan6863]

slava Ukraini

[@user-mz3nh4rs9n]

Героям Слава!

[@user-xj9gp2sm5u]

Geroyam slava!

[@sergeyd5777]

There were no "cossacks" in Ukraine. There were Kozaks. The former were russian druncards, finally employed by the monarchy, the latter were true warriors, defending Ukraine from invasions on the South.

[@chadgaston8615]

Nonsense. Khmelnytsky was one of the pioneers. He was Ukrainian, not Polish or Russian. Ivan Bohun is another hilarious character loved both by Russians and Lviv Ukrainians but hated by Poles. Poland and Russia eventually worked against the Cossacks in 1768.

[@sergeyd5777]

@@chadgaston8615 Did you read my comment carefully?

[@alessandroagnitti4791]

I've read similar comments around yt, why the difference in spelling?

[@sergeyd5777]

@@alessandroagnitti4791 Because there have been two historical formations of people, one in Ukraine, and the other in russia. I have indicated the major differences between them in my original comment.

[@esterherschkovich6499]

So interesting.I feel I.ve had a past life connected with Cossaks.I looked what it means the word..freedom+brave...I.ve needed that in my life..but I was born in the UK!Yet of European and Irish decent.

[@user-xj9gp2sm5u]

Hey there) It's cool that you feel something like that))I'm ukrainian and invite you to my homeland :)

[@maxm550]

Eastern Europe in not only Soviet Union. It’s gorgeous place with rich medieval history and Cossacks is just a part of it.

[@VictorWeikum]

Pagans in Hortiza? wat? Cossacks would slay them on site.

[@alekshukhevych2644]

@Nikeimizhong I love Ruthenian terminology, its more Ukrainian well then, Ukrainian!

[@RAVISINGH1129]

read the cossacks by tolstoy.......!!!

[@hexcrab7344]

I Love Ukraine so much.

[@FernandoRamos-ec6bv]

Are the Zaporozhian Cossacks coming back, including their culture?

[@HypertensionDanil]

молодцы

[@arielkozak]

waow I think they could be my ansestors

[@user-xj9gp2sm5u]

Its pretty sure

[@deadpool113]

This could be insulting, but I gotta say I often feel hard to tell them with Tatars.

[@andrejmucic5003]

These are museum Cossacks. "Dancing People."

[@IndependantW]

Who is that dude at 0:29??? It look like Larry Bird, the famous Boston Celtic basketball player who led the Celtics to three NBA championships! Did this Kozak have an American twin brother???

[@akkorraefrom]

Siromaha his name.

[@IceSlushi]

I wish there was a Canadian Cossack academy, I would join immediately.

[@antonikudlicki1100]

You can go to front if you learn the language and buy some equipment tho. Foreign aid is welcome in Ukraine as far as I know

[@purebloodheretic4682]

What a Great People, The Cossack Warriors Bravely fought Against the Bolshevik Communists in WWII - Some Fought Along Side the German Army- & Many Surrendered to the British - Thinking they would be Treated Fairly & Given Asylum - But Despite Promises of Not Being Deported to Soviet Union to Face Certain Death by Firing Squad or the Feared Siberian Labour Camp - They were Double Crossed & Deported Anyway- Many Chose Suicide instead of Facing the Horrors Stalin had Waiting for them- 😢 See: 'Operation Kleenhaul 1945' on Y.T. - This was Kept a State Secret for 30yrs Some of our History Needs to Be Revised, as it is Now Known to be Falsified- - Cheers👍😀🍺🍻🍺

[@tsarnicholasii1289]

duncan wood true they treid to save me

[@tarasbulba3190]

Будьмо!

[@Sofia-sp6ke]

Glory to Ukraine! Слава Україні! Slava Ukrayini! 😍🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦👍👍👍

[@veersinghsanyasi1304]

❤Tank's for this video Teachings story of Ukraine I like its From Africa ilands of Mauritius, I am a sanatanh sikh sanscriti, Roots of Barath India