By the 17th century they were split into Russian Cossacks (which spread to the East) and Ukrainian Cossacks. The latter formed the Zaporozhian Sich state in 1649 (in the Zaporizhia region in the ...

Serhii ran the house and would cook delicious borshch," Yurii Kocherzhynskyi recalls. Later, the family moved to Korsun-Shevchenkivskyi, where the couple had a son, Myroslav. "Mum always supported Dad ...