The war in Ukraine seemed unimaginable until it happened. The negations that caused its unpredictability are a part of the less-known history of Europe revolving around Kyiv. In his book The Crucifixion of Ukraine: A Thousand Years of Religious Wars in Europe, Jean-Francois Colosimo claims that this history has primarily been determined by the religious cultures founded in the three monotheistic religions and three Christian confessions, which never stopped facing and conflicting with each other in Ukraine, the land crucified by the explosion of totalitarianism and the awakening of nations.

In this book, Colosimo attempts to decipher the religious history of Ukraine, constituted by the series of controversies, conflicts, and crusades, mixed with the political ambitions of despots, theological controversies of popes and patriarchs, as well as the spiritual uprisings of prophets. In his important analysis, Colosimo tries to convince us that the time of religious wars in Europe is still not over.