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.

This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it ...

They are wrapped in folklore, faith and history, often portrayed as relics of another age: Russia’s Cossacks. Once marginalised and persecuted, they have been drawn back into the centre of state power ...

A man heard discussing “spies” aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in a phone call allegedly intercepted just after the jet was shot down is the leader of a band of Russian Cossacks and may be linked ...

Joint funeral in Simferopol brings together opposing factions. A Ukrainian soldier looks up standing between the coffins of Ukrainian soldier Sergey Kokurin, 35, right, and Russian Cossack militiaman ...

The Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine is now an active front line in the country's counteroffensive to push Russians out of occupied territory. In the 16th century, it was also run by warriors ...