The reclamation of the western steppe from the Asiatic Hordes was a long and costly process that required the blood, sweat and life long dedication of millions of our people over centuries.
The area of Southern Ukraine, the homeland of the Ancient Europeans, from the 5th century became the site of mass settlement by invading Asiatic horse tribes.
The process of reclamation began truly with the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, as well as the Lithuanian invasions into the Golden Horde which took place at the same time. A century later Russians finally freed themselves fully from the Mongol yoke with the Great Stand on the Urga River, while tens of thousands of freedom seeking Ukrainians escaping from Lithuanian serfdom fled to the east, ready to fight Tatars, Nogais and other Asiatic savages for their lives and freedom. In this way the Cossacks were born, and in 1552 their Hetmanate was officially established. The Cossacks existed in an almost constant state of war with the Crimean Tatars (and their Ottoman allies), who launched constant attacks and slave raids, until Crimea was totally pacified in the late 18th century.
Less then 2 decades later in 1568 Russia reached the borders of the Crimean Khaganate and the Nogai Horde and began a series of 12 Russo-Turkish wars between the 16th and 19th centuries.
In 1593 Poland also joined in the effort, engaging in the Moldavian Magnate Wars to attempt to free Romania from Ottoman occupation. This would lead to an almost permanent state of war with the Turks & Crimean Tatars until 1613. After this Poland would fight 5 more wars in the 17th century against the Turks & the Tatars.
The reconquest gained significant pace in the 18th century. 2 Serbian frontier districts, Nova Srbija and Slavosrbija, were created in the mid 18th century as more land was gained from the Turks by the Russian army and the Zaporyzhian Sich. Settlers from Bulgaria, Macedonia and Romania also arrived in significant numbers. In 1868-74 the last major confrontation was fought, shown in the image above, when Russian Army and the Zaporozhian Cossacks finally defeated the Tatars/Turks and drove them out of Northern Europe for good. In 1783 Crimea was officially annexed, the Crimean slave trade was ended and the process of clearing out Crimea and resettling it with Slavs finally began.
In a cruel mockery of the combined struggle of the whole Slavic people, Putin seeks to undo in a few decades what we bled for centuries to achieve. Ukrainians in the region, the descendants of the Zaporozhian Sich and of Balkan volunteers who fought to clear the Tatars from Europe, are to be driven out and replaced with Islamic migration from Central Asia and the Caucasus. The local Russians who Putin is supposedly there to protect will not get a say in this transformation, like everywhere else in Russia it will be imposed on them and illegal to criticise.
