godskingdom.org The territory now called The Ukraine was once the heart of the Khazar/Chazar Kingdom. This kingdom was largely unknown to the general population until Arthur Koestler wrote about its history in his 1976 book, The Thirteenth Tribe.
Koestler was a Jewish novelist and historian who was fascinated by his own ancestry as a Khazarian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler
In The Thirteenth Tribe (1976) Koestler advanced a theory that Ashkenazi Jews are descended, not from the Israelites of antiquity, but from the Khazars, a Turkic people in the Caucasus that converted to Judaism in the 8th century and was later forced westwards. Koestler argued that a proof that Ashkenazi Jews have no biological connection to biblical Jews would remove the racial basis of European anti-Semitism.
Although his view is called “a theory,” it is one that is supported by The Jewish Encyclopedia itself. The first section of Volume IV begins:
CHAZARS: A people of Turkish origin whose life and history are interwoven with the very beginnings of the history of the Jews in Russia. The kingdom of the Chazars was firmly established in most of South Russia long before the foundation of the Russian monarchy by the Varangians (855)…
It was probably about that time [7th century] that the chaghan of the Chazars and his grandees, together with a large number of his heathen people, embraced the Jewish religion.
The Jewish Encyclopedia goes on to quote from the letter (960 A.D.) written by King Joseph of the Chazars to Hasdai ibn Shaprut, to the Jewish court doctor in Cordoba, Spain. Joseph does not trace Chazar ancestry to Hebrew people but to Chazar, the seventh son of Togarma.
Togarma was the brother of Ashkenaz and the son of Gomer, the son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2, 3). Gomer himself—not to be confused with Hosea’s Gomer—was the brother of Magog, Meshech, and Tubal. These, along with Togarma himself, are the names prominent in Ezekiel 38 and 39, where we find them invading the land of Israel (Ezekiel 38:3, 6).
The Chazars today make up the eastern European Jews known as Ashkenazim—named after Togarma’s brother. Ezekiel’s prophecy of the so-called “Russian” invasion of Israel was actually fulfilled when the Russian Jews conquered Palestine through immigration.
In fact, modern Jews are a combination of Judah, Edom, and Khazar/Togarmah/Magog. Modern Zionism is, in fact, the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38, 39.
I wrote about this history in The Struggle for the Birthright, chapter 15.
Historically speaking, the Khazar kingdom was established before Russia itself. It was centered in what is now called The Ukraine but included also neighboring countries like Kazakhstan. The Russians eventually conquered the Khazars and incorporated their land into Russia. In 1917 the Khazars, in turn, overthrew Russia and established the Soviet Union. This was not a Russian Revolution but a Jewish Revolution in Russia. That is why the Lower East Side of New York City—the Jewish section—sent the first 256 commissars to rule Russia, including Rabbi Leon Bronstein, who took the name Leon Trotsky…READ FULL ARTICLE HERE… (godskingdom.org)
