Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan mamayewar Mongol na Kievan Rus '
Tarihin mutanen Rasha da na Ukraine ya fara bambanta. Na farko, da ya sami nasarar haɗa kan dukkan ragowar lardunan arewacin Rus, ya kumbura ya zama jihar Rasha mai iko. Na biyun ya kasance ƙarƙashin mamayar Grand Duchy na Lithuania, wanda Commonwealth na Poland-Lithuania ya biyo baya. A cikin Commonwealth, mayakan Zaporozhian Cossacks sun ki amincewa da Polonization, kuma sau da yawa suna rikici da gwamnatin Commonwealth, wanda masarautar Poland ke sarrafawa. Rikici tsakanin Cossacks ya sa su yi tawaye da Commonwealth kuma su nemi haɗin kai tare da Rasha, wanda suka raba yawancin al'adu, yare da addini, wanda a ƙarshe ya zama doka ta hanyar Yarjejeniyar Pereyaslav a 1654. Daga tsakiyar karni na 17 Ukraine ta kasance a hankali a cikin Daular Rasha, wanda aka kammala a ƙarshen karni na 18 tare da Rarraba Poland. Ba da daɗewa ba a ƙarshen ƙarni na 18, Daular ta rushe rundunar Cossack da ƙarfi, tare da yawancin jama'ar da suka ƙaura zuwa yankin Kuban a gefen Kudancin Daular Rasha, inda Cossacks za su taka muhimmiyar rawa ga Daular a cikin ƙasƙantar da ƙabilan Caucasian masu zafin rai.