The lives of Ukrainians are split in half — for the time before and after February 24, 2022, the day of the beginning of large-scale Russian aggression. However, the war did not start in 2022, not even in 2014. It has been going on since Ukraine broke out of the clutches of the Empire, which never accepted the loss. The General History of the Russian invaders dates back more than one century. Moscow was spreading, absorbing its close neighbors, casting its eyes at the distant ones. About the experience of a difficult neighborhood with Russia — this book.