A Brief History Of Ukraine (And Why Russia Wants To Control It)

In this video there aren't mentioned such vital points of Ukraine's history as the principality of Halych-Volyn, the emerge of Cossacks and their uprisings (which didn't have joining Russia as their main goal), the Cossack Hetmanate and Zaporozhian Sich. It wouldn't be so difficult to tell about that. However, a part of video is dedicated to the Crimean War, which relates to Russia's history, not that of Ukraine. Ukraine itself didn't fight the Crimean War, the Russian Empire did. I understand this is called 'brief history' but 'brief' doesn't mean 'inaccurate' or 'partial'.

Much is not said, some things are mixed up and changed. It seems that the author read a couple of short articles about different aspects of the Ukrainian history, then tried to combine them without delving into the topic and important details

Stalin was a Georgian and his first deputy in Soviet Occupied Ukrainian was Lazar Kaganovich a Jew......Kaganovich was the architect behind the Holomodor. I honestly and genuinely felt that this was worth stating!

I learned just this year that I have Ukrainian in my history and culture. I am 64 years old. my 87 y o dad emailed me a map of farmland showing 1 plat of farm land to have our last name. It had something to do with Czar Katerina offering farmland to German settlers. I was told since my earliest days that I and my 4 siblings were 100% German. Apparently when a folllowing czar kicked them off the land, they came to the United States. My fa, landed in S Dakota. Im trying to learn more about the post- Roman, pre-Christian Germanic/ medieval history of my German culture.

well, Western Ukraine was annexed into USSR territory during WW2 after Soviet Invasion of Poland. Before that that western area was mainly a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, so not Russia. That's quite important factor, as this part (around Lviv) is staunchly pro-Western.

Cossacks were fighting against moskovits together with lithuanians and treaty in 1654 was signed only because hetman had no choice he needed assistance in the war against poles and this decision was quite unpopular among elites. Cossacks were never favouring moscow. This page is so important in ukrainian history and this video says almost nothing about hetmanat, viisko zaporizske and cossacks.

History is always written in the Blood of the Innocent. This current battle is just beginning 😔

I recently learned that I am actually Ukrainian decent 🇺🇦 my dad was from a Jewish family 🇮🇱 but he came out atheist later in life so I didn’t grow up with the customs. I was always told our family came to america 🇺🇸 by boat 🚢 from 🇷🇺 during the revolutionary war 🔥 what ℹ didn’t know is that Ukraine was concurred by Cathrine the great herself centuries ago, and so for a long time Ukraine was part of the imperial Russian empire.

The video missed many important moments from the history of Ukraine. Even within the framework of a short retelling of the history and situation of Ukraine.

"Cozaks... rebelled in favour of Russia". For one, "Russia" did not exist at that time. Russia got it's name "Russia" only in 1721. And two, no, you are factually wrong. Ukrainian cozaks wanted to be independent and fought dozens of battles against Moscow. It's only in the middle of 17th century that Ukrainian cozaks signed alliance with Moscow. A decision that a lot of cozaks did not agree with.

Great summary!

@5:00 "Following war between Ottoman and Russian empires. Crimea was briefly independent before being annexed" The Crimean Khanate had some independence from 1774 till 1783 it was annexed. But The Crimean Khanate Tatars had nothing in common with Ukrainian Cossacks living around Kiev.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana (1863)

My dad‘s family is Ukrainian; I’ve been able to trace our lineage back to the late 1700s. In 1926, my great-grandparents immigrated to Canada ahead of the Holodomor, but lost many family members in the intentional starvation of over 10 million people. Dido (my great-grandfather) lived to be 103, and so I grew up listening to his stories of his life in Ukraine. This video taught me even more than what I’ve read on my own about the history of Ukraine. Thanks for posting this! ❤️🇺🇦

Great summary, learned a lot from this vid.

Excellent. Thank you.

Not even a word about Galician-Volyn principality. Not even a word about the king Danylo who was the rightful king of Rus and heir of the Rurik dynasty, who build a lot of cities in the eastern part of Rus like Lviv and who was the only ruler of so-called Rus states who kept on fighting the Golden hord unlike nothern states who just gave up and paid tribute. Not even a word about Zaporozhian Sich and famous cossack hetmans. You could have mentioned Bohdan Khmelnitsky at least. Ukranian identity began to emerge more fully in 19th century, really? And what in your opinion our ancestors were doing before that time? They lived on this land and spoke their own language and were fighting for their identity. You've made good short documentary, but I'm really pissed that after the destraction of Kievan Rus you have a blank space like ukranians never existed and then they suddenly "emerge" only in 19th century.

Totally miss the story about the energy resources in East and south Ukraine..

Very nice job. Complex history.

Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this very informative content cheers Frank 😊