Kings and Generals

Russia's First Invasion of Ukraine (2023x13)

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Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of medieval era continues with a series on the origins of Ukrainians and Ukrainian History. Previously, we explored how the identity of Ukraine as a nation starting forming with the Kyivan Rus and the kingdom of Ruthenia, and about the Mongol period - https://youtu.be/3uyHWEOoPnM. Second episode described the fall of the Mongol rule over the lands of Ukraine, how the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth took over and how these events led to the Rise of the Cossacks and the Bogdan Khmelnytsky's rebellion. This third episode will focus on how Ukraine lived between the three empires - Ottoman Sultanate, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the tsardom of Muscovy (Russia), and how Russia's first invasion of Ukraine which used the internal problems of the Cossack Hetmanate.