He held frequent councils to cultivate the poorer cossacks and created a 20,000 man band of mercenaries to free himself from the starshina .
1665 - 76 : Doroshenko and the Turks : The goal of Petro Doroshenko was to re-unite the two halves of Ukraine .
Doroshenko held frequent councils to cultivate the poorer cossacks and created a 20,000 man band of mercenaries to free himself from the starshina .
1665 - 76 : Doroshenko and the Turks : The goal of Petro Doroshenko was to re-unite the two halves of Ukraine .