Zaporizhzhian Cossacks are warriors who have been revered for centuries in Ukraine. A family is maintaining the Cossack traditions by training... The Cossacks' traditions live on near the front lines ...

Children and teenagers undergo training at a military boot camp, run by local Cossack organizations and set up in the mountains of the Crimea near the town of Bakhchisarai, Ukraine. The camps last for ...

There was once a military training camp for the young in Europe, known as the Crimea Sich, that took place every year in August for two weeks. It was located in Crimea, a peninsula right below Ukraine ...

Cossacks guard the local parliament building in Crimea's capital Simferopol on March 6, 2014 Senior Correspondent On Monday morning, about 150 Cossack officers got together in Crimea, the breakaway ...

Yuriy Kopishynskyi stands with a horse at his family's horseback riding school on Khortytsia, an island on the Dnipro River just outside Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. (Claire Harbage | NPR) KHORTYTSIA, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link The Cossacks — an ethnic minority of East Slavic people who recently helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine — send kids as young as 7 to military ...

KHORTYTSIA, Ukraine — This lush, wild island, the largest on the Dnipro River, is just outside the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, not far from the front line where Ukrainian soldiers are trying to ...