How Russia humiliated the Ottoman Empire over and over again

The Russo-Turkish wars (or Russo-Ottoman wars) were a series of twelve wars fought between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 20th centuries. It was one of the longest series of military conflicts in European history. The conflicts ended disastrously for the stagnating Ottoman Empire; conversely, they showcased the ascendancy of Russia as a European power after the modernization efforts of Peter the Great in the early 18th century.

[kdubs]

Crimea belonged to Russia before Washington was a city

[Lyudtaru]

It's so funny how you guys mention "Ukraine" as if it was a country. There was no Ukraine at that time. Only "Okraina" which was referenced as outskirts of Russia. But no such a country as Ukraine.

[romandyomin]

"Controlling Ukraine" like it was its own country to begin with 😂😂😂

[frunzeairship]

Западные христианские "партнёры" дважды помешали освободить константинополь

Впрочем ничего удивительного

[mappingshaman]

Western chauvinists always like to ignore and downplay the role russia played in fighting the ottomans. The fact the turks no longer control the balkans is always attributed to poland whom did win one great battle against the ottomans at vienna, but the fact russia won 11 wars against the ottomans including the war of 1878 which effectively sealed the fate of the ottoman empire, is completely ignored.

[vladm]

“Controlling Finland, Ukraine and much of Poland..” give me any medieval or renaissance map that has Ukraine on it… it was all part of Russia. Now Finland/Poland yes, those were separate nations under Russian control.

[dmitrychirkov]

Imagine Russia being gravely concerned about Brittain claiming Ireland and sending troops to protect it

[jaymagic]

Bruh... controlling Ukraine? Ffs pls stop this. Ukraine has always been Russia.

[mnemonicpie]

"Ivan the Terrible shut down the slave markets"
He wasn't that terrible I guess😂

[bewakoofi]

If it was not for the British, Constantinople would be Christian today…

[Alex-kreg]

All you need to know about France and GB is in this video - we can colonise the world, but nobody else is allowed to do so.

[slavianskiy]

Russia did not control Ukraine. The regions of Russia located on the border were called "Ukraine". Siberia was also "Ukraine".Therefore, it sounds stupid that Russia controlled itself in Ukraine

[Jhnnyravo]

The Russian Empire was not “controlling Ukraine”! “Ukraine” was just a term used for border-most regions of the Empire. That territory was part of the Russian Empire since forever (with the exception of the lands stolen from Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia.

[imimpo]

It's a dman shame that British and French prevented Constaninople from becoming a Christian city again. A betrayal even

[manu_spawn]

Wow... so pretty much Russia freed most of Eastern Europe

[mercianthane]

Constantinople:
*falls*

Russians:
And we took that personally.

[iwillnoteatzebugs]

Hohols tell me ukraine was there? WHERE 😂😂😂😂

[gregdvorkin]

You are missing important point. After invasion of Moscow in 1571 as you mentioned, Crimean khan decided to do it again in 1572 but suffered devastating defeat. Crimea lost all its manpower and for the next 20 years could not repeat any invasion (until 1591). As a result Ottoman Empire gave up any attempt to return any influence on the territories of Astrakhan and Kazan.

[borispavlenco]

i hate the name Ivan the Terrible, Should be more like "Ivan the Ferocious".
He is one of the top 5 leaders throughout all of Russian history.

[pelinalwhitestrake]

Imagine how would the map look like if France and UK didn't intervene in Eastern European affairs.