Ukraine’s True History: How Russia has been trying to conquer Ukraine for centuries
When did Russia’s war against Ukraine start? Spoiler: not in 2022. In fact, not even in 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula and invaded Ukraine’s east.
Moscow has been trying (often successfully) to subjugate the territories that make up modern Ukraine for nearly 400 years. But some historians say that the seeds of Russian desire to dominate Ukraine were planted even earlier.
In the second episode of the “Ukraine’s True History“ series, we explain why Ukraine and Russia are far from being “brotherly nations,“ as Russian propaganda claims.
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Timecodes:
00:00 - Intro. When did Russia first invade Ukraine?
01:15 - Kyivan Rus. First seeds
01:53 - Moscow “protectorate.“ Times of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
03:26 - Times of Ivan Mazepa
04:20 - End of Cossack state
05:00 - Fall of the Empire, rise of the Soviets
06:22 - 21st century
This material is funded by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting within the program “Ukraine Forward: Amplifying Analysis.”
The program is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.
Producer and scriptwriter: Anna Yakutenko
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Olga Rudenko, Toma Istomina
Illustration by Alina Radomska. Motion design by Anastasia Nevmerzhytska.
Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko
Photos and videos used in story:
LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/AFP via Getty Images
SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images
Vincent Mundy/Bloomberg via Getty Images
GENYA SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images
VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP via Getty Images
YAROSLAV DEBELYI/AFP via Getty Images
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Viktor Yushchenko/Facebook
Our Ukraine/Facebook
Vitali Klitschko/YouTube
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