The Kievan Rus had fractured into warring kingdoms, each perpetually rocked by border disputes and revolts. The Mongol army invaded, burning and sacking cities like Kiev and Ryazan, and ...

It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...

He decimated Kyiv, the capital at that time of Kievan Rus. It was the first east Slavic state. Yes, Rus is a culture from which the word Russia derives. It started in Kyiv, which the Mongols sacked ...

The situation in Ukraine is often fast moving and it is likely there will be times when there have been changes not reflected in the maps.