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By the mid-17th century the Ottoman Empire had reached its greatest extent, stretching from Batumi at the eastern end of the Black Sea to Algeria, taking in Mesopotamia, Palestine, the shores of the Red Sea (including Mecca and Medina), Egypt, Anatolia, Greece, the Balkans, Hungary, Moldavia, the North African coast, the Crimea, and southern Ukraine.
Despite nationalist hostility toward Russia, Ukraine remains too dependent to do anything more than grumble about the Russian military's continued use of its ports.
But, if you forgive me for tooting my horn a little, you may remember a little piece I wrote for the New Republic in 1988, called "Paristroika," laying out the uncanny similarities between the situation of the then-Soviet Union and the situation of France on the eve of its 1789 revolution (the pompous Sovietologist Jerry Hough wrote a condescending letter to the editor, scolding me for my ignorance in failing to realize that the Russians would never let things get to the point where Ukraine or Lithuania might secede.
(Of course, politically the Ukraine, or Ukraine tout court as it is now officially called, is no longer Russian, but as for language, it is at least as Russian as it is Ukrainian.)
Boleslaw later repelled invasions from Otto’s successor and then sought Poland’s own expansion eastward; he eventually annexed parts of present-day Ukraine.