User:Andriy Rudyi/Ukrainian Cossacks

Ukrainian Cossacks are Cossack troops, which were originally organized for the defense of the southern Kievan Rus' lands, which were part of the Principality of Lithuania, from the steppe hordes during the total offensive of the Eastern World and the Great Steppe (within the Christian-Muslim civilizational confrontation) on the territory of modern Ukraine. Subsequently, they took an active part in the wars with the Muscovite Kingdom on the side of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and from the 17th century, during the War of Liberation, and against the last one. Later, due to disputes over internal and external political course, during the period known as the «Ruin», they fought, including against each other, mostly in alliance with various neighboring empires into which they were eventually incorporated.