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, ...

We have a bit of history now from war-torn Ukraine, specifically the Zaporizhzhia region in southern Ukraine. It's an active front line. Centuries ago, the 16th century, it was run by warriors beating ...

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 ...

On a wooded river island, a Ukrainian family guards the legacy of the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks, whose history and traditions are making a comeback during the war. The Zaporizhzhia region in southern ...

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 ...