Ukraine's First War against Russia | Cossacks, Khmelnytsky Uprising, Zaporozhia  

I love the fact you went into more detail about Khmelnytsky and the Hetmanate than I could've in my video, great job!

The borders of Russia following the partition of Poland is a little incorrect as the Congress Poland territory jutting out from the Russian borders didn't come to existence until after the defeat of Napoleon. Before this the Congress Poland territory of Russia was controlled mostly by Prussia and partially by Austria

Great animation top notch stuff man so glad to be working with you

Definitely my absolute favorite thing about history channels on RU-vid, they started doing these huge collabs and suddenly, like my own little Christmas every once in a while, my subscriptions are filled with fresh content that'll take me days to get through. Keep up the good work guys, history is my greatest passion and I adore the channels across this site putting out solid history content. And to end on a more topical note, Slava Ukraini!

Kuban cossacks we're literally the children of the Zaporhizian cossacks that settled there and spoke Ukrainian. the Don cossacks consisted of cossacks that were from Slobozhanshina which was to a large part Ukrainian.

That was a lovely rendition of the Cossacks' Reply in your minimalist mspaint-y style :)

Great video! Really good to find out a bit more about who the cossacks were and their influence in the creation of a Ukrainian identity.

Kuban Cossacks were the direct descendants of Zaporozhian Cossacks. They were Ukrainians as well. Don Cossacks were close to Russians but still despised Muscowites and did not want them to settle on their territory. Some descendants of Don Cossacks became the infamous Russian Cossacks who captured Siberia and took part in Russian military expeditions to Europe (e.g. in Paris).

Kuban Cossacks are also of Ukrainian origin. Don Cossacks are mixed Ukrainian and Russian.

Most informative, thank you!

Finally there's a video which shows that after Khmelnytsky's agreement with Muscovy things were not done and there was half of century of turbulence

"The attitude of the West and of Russia towards a crisis like Ukraine is diametrically different. The West is trying to establish the legality of any established border. For Russia, Ukraine is part of the Russian patrimony" --Henry Kissinger

I've seen a lot of the project ukraine videos but this is certainly one of the best of them

I'm glad to see the world taking interest in the history of this region of Europe and finally starting to understand it but sad that it took a bloody war to happen. This video is great introduction to the topic. There are some minor problems with it, like the pronunciation of _Sich_ (why the 'k' sound?) and some other words. I've never heard about Maksym Kryvonis being potentially of Scottish origin. That's a very interesting detail! And not so improbable, as you might think. There was Scottish immigration to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - an interesting topic, worthy of its own video.

that's a surprisingly accurate video for a Westerner* it would also be worth mentioning that Russian Kuban Cossacks were descendants of Ukrainian settlers *you got the partition map wrong. Russian part was initially much smaller, it got bigger (what you show) after the Napoleon wars and pronunciation :)

im glAD to see your channel has grown and become part of this effort to help Ukrainians and also for teaching others understand the rich, and complicated history of such great nation and its people.

The best video is the best I’ve ever seen in English-speaking RU-vid!!! Thank you so much!!!

I am happy to come here from King and Generals and Cold War channel to watch as many of these as possible.

Thx for the upload

So proud to be part of #ProjectUkraine =) amazing videos by all the great content creators! 🇺🇦

I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

Khmelnytsky's uprising took place at the same time as the English Revolution. In some ways, these events are similar in the uprising of the new aristocracy, supported by burghers, against the existing state. Plus the religious factor: in England they are Catholics against Protestants, and in Ukraine - Catholics against Orthodox. But in Ukraine/Ruthenia/Cossack state, Muscovy intervened in this conflict, and after several decades of byzantine policy, was able to conquer Ukraine and later destroy the Commonwealth.

Grateful for this Playlist! @Kings and Generals & Company!!

thank you for supporting Ukraine from the bottom of heart ♥

Probably one of most detailed and correct video about history of Ukraine in english what i saw. 👍 Fun fact - before Khmelnytskyi there was Sahaidachnyi. In 1618 Hetman Sahaidachnyi raise a 20K army of Cossacks to help Polish-Lithuanian King win the war with Moscow. But for some reasons they decided to spare it. In one version, Sahaidachny heard church bells and suggest negotiating peace.... If only he knew

great video! note: “ch” in “Sich” is pronounced as in “chicken”

Nice to see some larger channels all teaching about this. I made a short about Ukraine a couple months ago on my channel, but it is new so not many folks saw it.

Who else has been enjoying going through the playlist today?

Excellent video! I covered the same topic in my contribution to #ProjectUkraine, but I focused on slightly different aspects and a narrower timeframe.

Thank you.

Love your channel, Bro do you think you can make content related to more Napoléonic era, thank you ^_^

Great video, as a ukrainian living in Canada it's a great refreshment of my historical heritage

The fact that the Ukrainians responded to the ottomans by roasting them is hilarious to me

There's actually no original paper on the traty of Pereyaslav. So it may be just a political manipulation from the russia to justify the occupation of Ukraine. The last hetman of Ukraine Kyrylo Rozumovsky investigated that matter in the late XVIII century but as soon as he wanted to make a claim of Independent Ukraine once again - he was arrested. In his official documents the Ukrainain nation was literarly mentioned as the title people of Ukraine.

Kings and generals, Al muqadimah, hikma history, knowledgia, from nothing, emperor tigerstar, Jabzy all released videos relating Ukraine at the same time.

I as a Ukrainian feel this video even a bit too inaccurate as Poles were the same occupants on our land as russians did during Ruin. Even more, Poles were destroying our traditional cossack government while russians took the way of slow integration of our land in their country. Cossackhood was demolished in Poland in the 17th century, while in russia as far as one hundred years after Poles did. So, for better understanding, no one spoke russian in Ukraine during the Ruin YET. But Eastern Bank of the Dnipro Cossacks had economical relationships with russia, while Western Bank were relatively ready to give up in independence to have the ability to trade with Poles. That was the problem and no poles were 'hope' or 'help' or 'democracy' of some sort. Until modern days Poles were occupants even with russians in their hate on us. It's important to consider

Great video! As a Russian from Kunan' region it was nice to refresh some stuff but also clarify and get to know a lot too.

Congrats on kings and generals link up

Apostolic Majesty's video "How the Ukraine became the Ukraine (1187-1992: A Brief History" is phenomenal and everyone should go give it a listen.

Good job. Really good. Just felt like I had to express that. Thank you for objectiveness

15:30 didn't realize that was the etymology of "condominium".. I'm never going to see a normal old condo the same again.

"as he [Khmelnytskyi] has a city named after him" Yeah, I live in it. It was renamed from Proskuriv on the third centenary of that Pereyaslav treaty by moscow I'm sorry to inform you, you butchered much of Ukrainian names. If interested, I can instruct on anglicized pronounciation

Not only Russia betrayed Cossacks. The western part of Hetmanate was just gifted by Russia to Poland despite Russia de facto had no rights on Hetmanate at all (it was just a protectorate and military alliance). But for Russian tsars it was like "we captured new land and this is Russia now". Moreover Ruthenia is much bigger land than just Hetmanate. Western Ruthenia still was under control of Poland and many Ruthenians were angered by the commonwealth of three nations since their land was just gifted to Polish nation.

When you compare that with current events in Ukraine you can see that many players still stay the same. Russia, Poland, Turkey, Sweden. In later century French and British come by and in 20th century americans arrive.

How strange, these modern days, we find stuff out about our own name sakes. Due to the computer, I found a 'nobleman' Stanislaw Rajkiewicz. Yes the old way to spell my very Polish name, with a 'j'. Here is what I found, in Polish from 1663, 'W Jm Pan Stanislaw Rajkiewicz, Rotmistrz". which, when translated says, Sir Nobleman, Stanislaw Rajkiwicz, Captain of Horse(a Knight). He was enobled or 'knighted' by the King of Ruthenia(which I had never heard of). Until recently, I never knew about any of this. In the USA my last name has a 'y' in it. Sorry for the long post.

Surprised there was no mention of Makhnovshchina and the combined roles Cossacks played in both the Red, White, and Green armies of Russia. Of course, it was such a chaotic and complex period I would assume its a topic for another video, because hoooo boy things got wild in Huliaipole. Dons, Zaporozhians, and the Kubans fighting each other, fighting themselves, practically becoming the world's largest Deathmatch game.

Ivan Mazepa is a very interesting character. Very smart guy. He deserves separate video

Russia at the start of the war: this'll be so easy Russia after Ukraine's offensive: *vodka time stops*

It seems like cussing out invaders is a bit of a tradition there!

Authors admit that khmelnitskii accepted russian rule... isnt it over ar that point?

There is a movie by Jezhe Hoffman called "By Sward and Fire" about the events of Khmilnitsky time, but it's told from a Polish perspective. But still, it has some pretty impressive battle reenactments.

Not "Sick" but Sich (Sitch)

Mazepa switched sides on the eve of battle... to the losing side... New Russia was not founded on Kozak land, it was build on Tatar lands.

Ukraine: exists Russia: that unacceptable

I cried at the beginning.

Can we have episodes about the peoples of Russia's republics like the Urdmut, Kalmyk, Yakuts, Tuvans, Tatars, Crimean Tatars, Circassians, Ossetians, Ingush, Chuvash, Chechens...they too have their language, culture and history endangered by policies of Russification not unlike Catherine's. Their histories should be remembered outside the cyrillic alphabet.

What I'd like to know is did any of these various Cossack groups identify as 'Ukrainian'. I suspect very few did. Ukraine was just a name for a borderland, a contested area on the map...in fact that's what the name means.

1149 prince Yuriy Rurykovych from Vladimir-Suzdal principality first marches to Kyiv. Two years after moscow first mention.

28:30 Melitopol?

The "Sick" lmao, are you Terrance or Philip?

Kozak is a word of Turkic origin. It means free man. Free in the sense of not belonging to the clan, to the state. After the collapse of the Golden Horde, the state collapsed and a bunch of free nomads appeared who did not belong to the same khan. They were called Cossacks. Some of them found service in Poland/Lithuania/Moscow state.

I mostly agree with everything said in this video except one thing. Before Khmelnytsky Uprising Cossacks where mostly a social class than ethnicity. Off course Cossacks play important role in the creation of modern Ukrainian nation but we cannot assume that Cossack uprising where Ukrainian Wars for independence. Besides modern notion of nation (any, not only Ukrainian) it is late 18th - early 19th century creation.

Tripped me out to hear kings and generals

As the first one at least could be mentioned when muscovite principal betreyed Rus' principals and helped mongolians to defeat them

I’m not the biggest fan of Khrushchev (although he is definitely better than Stalin and Brezhnev) but he’s probably the only ruler of a Russian empire (yep I called the USSR a Russian empire) who seemed to tolerate Ukraine. His granddaughter even said he would be appalled by Putin’s actions. So while he is certainly an enemy to Hungary, he really isn’t to Ukraine.

Thanks a lot from Ukraine for your truthful videos about our country!

Thanks from Ukraine 🤝. But a small correction: 'ch' in 'Sich' is spelled like in 'beech' or 'chips'.

Did he say cosacks or kazakhs

Simple excuse to say the Cossacks are a mystery. Truth is they were always in the Donbas, Donetsk region.

14:00 Bohun support propolish side and Treaty of Hadiach

You're misrepresenting the history of Ukraine. For one, Ukraine in the 15th century never extended to the black sea. It was about a third of the size you presented in the animation. Also, the Ukrainians of that time switched back and forth their allegiance between the Polish and the Russian.

It is legitimately painful that you had to use some pictures of "anime" "cossacks" instead of what Cossacks actually looked like at the time. Maksym Krivonos also wasn't Scottish in any capacity. I am skimming over your video and you either make mistakes, or lie. The division between the pro-Russian and pro-Polish cossacks even early on were along the Dnieper river. Vyhovskiy wasn't actually very popular and represented a smaller part of the cossacks. He "won" his position by usurping, and pro-Russian cossacks to the east of dnieper fought him and did not let him advance eastwards. In fact, he wasn't even popular west of dnieper and anti-Russian Cossack regiments were generally smaller than the pro-Russian ones, if I recall correctly for both instances of anti-Russian uprisings, both under Vyhovskiy and Yuri Khmelnitskiy.

You are missing very important period of "Kievan Rus" 882-1240. This is where the state from which ukrainian nationality is mostly originated from. And first invation of ancestors of Russia on Ukraine has happend at 1169.

Thanks for the information. However to note, this doesn't help Ukraine's case. As by this line, Ukraine's historical claim would surrender its claims on the Crimean/tatar lands, Odessa, and some lands in the west if Poland cares for it. More so, it would imply neutrality since the Cossacks stood against West and East alike. Which seems pretty much Putin's primary wishlist, and goes significantly further than the concessionist stance (Odessa making a big difference).

When did Ukraine first have a war with Russia? Presumably as soon as rebellious colonists who had moved north into the "Wild Fields" from the center of civilization around Kyiv became numerous enough to attack their motherland.

Sietch, like with Dune's Fremen.

Soviets completely replaced Little Russian identity with Ukrainian identity in the 1920s with the localization campaign. They did not create it but they helped solidify it, since the Little Russian identity was associated with the tsarist regime. Let's also not pretend that most people in Ukraine fought against communists and that all the communists were Russians, plenty of communists from the Ukrainian regions. So please don't mention a "complete fallacy" while inventing one simultaneously

6:24 why are you calling Zaporozhian sich a state? "Sich" is some kind of a fortress or something like that.

Cossacks are simply Kipchaks and Circassians who have undergone Slavic influence.

Appreciate your work. But please correct. It is not Zapozidgian "sick" but sitch

There is a movie - The Guide, about this blind bandura musicians

A couple of things, Ukrainians and Cossacks aren't as simple as being one, for example the Soviet union forced Cossacks to learn Ukrainian as a way to suppress local dialects and Cossack culture. The civil wars often had little concept of nationalism before the birth of the concept. The Russian civil war wasn't nearly as straight forward as outlined, white officers were surprised by the loyalty of many Cossacks to the old regime though other factions had little and Cossacks as a whole were largely reactive, settling down with agreements before taking up arms when the red started murdering civilians on mass with the clear intent of genocide. Cossacks due to their unique social structures played a very different role to Ukrainians in the war (though both were extensively victimised, though the Cossacks were even more pointedly so, the jews also got special attention but likely not with orders from the top but rather anti-Semitism adding on to the depravity of the Soviet troops).

Borders of Poland should already change after war of 1676

The wild fields were part of the PLC, not Independent

Why no mention of Nestor Mhakno?

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Are you saying that New Russia - Novorossya was never a part of Ukraine and was conquered by Russians from Tatars? So how come it is a part of Ukraine now?

Khmelnytsky, he strongly weakened Commonwealth

So Polish people fight aside Russians few times.

Victory for 🇺🇦!

we have been fighting the barbaric orient for the centuries , we Litwins know the drill ... "Let us begin with this evident fact: Muscovy does not belong at all to Europe, but to Asia. It follows that judging Muscovy and the Muscovites by our European standards is a mistake to be avoided."-gonzague de reynold, 19501 In methodological terms, one should de-Europeanise any analysis of Muscovy policy.- thomas gomart, 20062 "

You forgot the USSR state-pushed Ukrainification campaign in the 1920s.

K. Marx: The Mongolian Origins of Muscovite Power. The policy of the first Ruriks is completely distinguished from that of modern Russia ... The Gothic period constitutes for Russia only a chapter of Germanic invasions ... Thus the Russia of the Normans disappeared completely from the scene and those feeble vestiges which persisted were obliterated by the terrifying apparition of Genghis Khan. The origin of Moscovy lies in the bloody degradation of Mongolian slavery and not in the rude heroism of the Norman epoch. Modern Russia is nothing but a transfigured Moscovy ... Ivan Kalita, the First [4], and Ivan III, called the Great, incarnate, [in] the one, the growth of Moscow under Tartar domination; [in] the other, Moscow becoming an independent power, thanks to the disappearance of Tartar domination. In the history of these two individuals is summarized the entire Moscovite policy from the moment of its entry upon the historic arena. Ivan Kalita’s whole system may be expressed in a few words: the Machiavellism of the slave who wants to usurp power. His very weakness, his servitude, became for him the driving principle of his strength. Ivan III delivered Moscow from the Tartar yoke, not by a bold and decisive blow, but by the patient work of twenty years. He did not break it, but surreptitiously extricated himself from it. Thus this deliverance bears more resemblance to a natural phenomenon than to a human act. When the Tartar monster was on the point of uttering its last death-rattle, Ivan appeared at its death-bed as a doctor who makes the diagnosis and announces the end, and not a warrior who strikes the coup de grace. Every people appears to have grown in stature when it shakes off a foreign yoke. From Ivan’s hands, Moscovy emerged still more debased. To be convinced of this, it suffices to compare Spain and its struggle against the Arabs with Moscovy and its struggle against the Tartars. It is still interesting today to note to what extent Moscovy endeavored - just like modern Russia - to conduct attacks upon the republics. Novgorod and its colonies open up the cycle, the Cossack Republic follows suit, and Poland closes it ... Ivan seems to have wrested from the Mongols the chains which crushed Moscovy only to impose them upon the Russian republics.

"Russians also repressed Ukranians' music" - shows Stalin - a Georgian person who couldn't even speak Russian properly. Such an unnecessary manipulation.

It should describe as Zelensky rebellion

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31:16 / 31:50

Kuban cossks came from Ukraine thus Ukrainians again

This video has a lot modern politics shaping it and it's biased I mean if want to talk about history you have to do it regardless of the present

Russia was invited by Ukrainian people assembly (Rada) in Pereyaslav to help fight against the Commonwealth. How is it counts for invasion, you tell me