[yesthatjallen]

"Today I interviewed the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Poland, Mr. Sergei Andreev. During a nearly hour-long conversation held in the building of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw, we raised a number of important issues not only in Poland-Russia relations. The whole thing tomorrow on my YT."

SykulskiLezek Twitter

("In the background on the wall there is a reproduction of the painting 'Cossacks write a letter to the Sultan' by Repnin. Knowing the Russians, this is no coincidence.") (Russia sending a message)

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

Copy. Not the original.

[buwaya]

Note - those Cossacks of the Zaporozhia, in Repnins famous painting, were Ukrainians. And free men.

There were other Cossack hordes later and further and further east, but those were all in service to the Tsar, unlike those original guys on the Dneipr, free from all masters, Tsar or King or Sultan.