KYIV – Kozak regiments of old aren’t triumphantly riding on horseback into a fortress at the former Hetman state capital of Baturyn in Chernihiv Oblast, 140 miles east of Kyiv, for the nation’s Flag Day celebration on August 23.
In their place, where such nation-building leaders of the Hetmanate as Demian Mnohohrishny, Ivan Mazepa and the last hetman, Kyrylo Rozumovsky, made their base of operations, another assembly is gathering.