Battle of Pyliavtsi

The 360th anniversary of the Battle of Pyliavtsi, which took place on September 23, 1648. It was a victorious battle of the Ukrainian Cossack army led by Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky against the troops of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth near Pyliavtsi.

In the video: people visit the site of the Battle of Pylyavtsi, men in Cossack costumes compete on horseback with spears, fight with sabers, a theatrical performance, children, a mound, laying flowers, flags.

There is an interview: Jan Kowalski, a local historian, Valeriy Hrokholskyi, a colonel of the Ukrainian Cossacks, and Viktor Yushchenko, the President of Ukraine.