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.

November 25, 2024: Russia, desperate to find more manpower to reinforce their troops in Ukraine, has turned to its small Cossack population. Russia made a deal with the Cossack leadership to persuade ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In late April 2024, in central Kyiv, heavy cranes began dismantling a sculpture erected to commemorate 17th-century Pereiaslav ...

A party has been established to defend the interests of the Cossacks MOSCOW, November 26 (Itar-Tass) —— Russia’s Cossacks, who have close links with the Russian Orthodox Church and with various ...

Russian Cossack groups are building ties with Serbs in the Balkans. But are they just promoting Russia, or finding fighters for it too? A few days before the peaceful dissolution of Czechoslovakia on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word Cossack comes from the Turkic word meaning “free man” or “outlaw.” True to this moniker, Ukraine’s Cossacks — a ...

Yuriy Kopishynskyi stands with a horse at his family's horseback riding school on Khortytsia, an island on the Dnipro River just outside Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Claire Harbage | NPR) KHORTYTSIA, ...

BLANCHE-EGLISE, France, October 2 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Cossacks who are marching on Paris as part of a campaign to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Russia’s 1812 Patriotic War against Napoleon ...

KHORTYTSIA, Ukraine — This lush, wild island, the largest on the Dnipro River, is just outside the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, not far from the front line where Ukrainian soldiers are trying to ...