List of wars involving Ukraine explained

The following is a list of major conflicts fought by Ukraine, by Ukrainian people or by regular armies during periods when independent states existed on the modern territory of Ukraine, from the Kievan Rus' times to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Ukraine by Ukrainian military.

Kievan Rus' is considered the first Ukrainian state (together with Belarus and Russia), the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (Ruthenia) its political successor, and after the period of domination by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth the Cossack states (the Cossack Hetmanate and the Zaporozhian Sich).^[1] The Ukrainian Cossacks were also related to the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate, having many conflicts with them. By the late 18th century, Ukraine didn't have independent states anymore, because it was ruled by the more powerful states of the time, namely the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire.^{[2] [3]} There were several internal armed conflicts between various Ukrainian ideological factions (sometimes with foreign support) in the first half of the 20th century (especially during the 1917–1921 Ukrainian War of Independence and the 1939–1945 Second World War), but modern Ukrainian militaries (since 1917) have been mostly fighting with armies of neighbouring states, such as the Russian Provisional Government (Kiev Bolshevik Uprising November 1917), the Russian SFSR (Ukrainian War of Independence 1917–1921), the Second Polish Republic (Polish–Ukrainian War 1918–1919), Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (Second World War and post-War resistance),^[1] and since 2014, the Russian Federation (Russo-Ukrainian War).

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Kingdom of Ruthenia and other Rus' principalities (1240–1500)

See main article: List of wars and battles involving Galicia–Volhynia. Following the end of Kievan Rus' in 1240, it split into many Rus' principalities. The Principality, later Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (Ruthenia) would control most of the territory of modern Ukraine for a century, after which the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Crown of the Kingdom of Poland would dominate the region.

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1248–1455	Three raids on Yotvingians	Bolesław V the Chaste Siemowit I of Masovia Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia	Yotvingians	Bolesław V the Chaste's victory
1252–1254	Kuremsa raid on South Volyn	Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia	Golden Horde	Victory
1280	War between Leszek II the Black and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Battle of Goźlice	Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia	Leszek II the Black	Defeat
1323	Polish-Hungarian raid on Ruthenia	Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia	Kingdom of Poland Kingdom of Hungary	Defeat
1340–1392	Galicia–Volhynia Wars	Kingdom of Poland local factions Kingdom of Hungary Duchy of Masovia	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Golden Horde local factions Duchy of Lodomeria	Expansion of Poland and Lithuania at expense of Rus'.
1362/1363	Battle of Blue Waters	Grand Duchy of Lithuania Principality of Kyiv	Golden Horde	Victory
1389–1392	Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392)	Teutonic Knights Samogitia Rus' principalities		Ostrów Agreement
1409–1411 1410	Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War Battle of Grunwald	Kingdom of Poland Grand Duchy of Lithuania Ruthenia, Masovia, Moldavia, Tatars, Czechs, Bohemia, Moravia, Wallachia, Smolensk	State of the Teutonic Order	Victory
1431–1435	Lithuanian Civil War (1431–1435)	Grand Duchy of Rus' (Polotsk, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Kyiv, Volhynia) Teutonic Knights Livonian Order Golden Horde Principality of Moldavia	Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Samogitian Eldership, Trakai Voivodeship, Vilnius Voivodeship, Podlasie) Kingdom of Poland Hussites	Defeat

Cossack Ukraine (1500–1764)

This section contains list of wars involving Zaporozhian Cossacks (including Danubian Sich) and Cossack Hetmanate (both of right-bank and left-bank).

Uprisings

See main article: article and Cossack uprisings.

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1591–1593	Kosiński Uprising	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat
1594–1596	Nalyvaiko Uprising	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat
1625	Zhmaylo Uprising	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Treaty of Kurukove
1630	Fedorovych Uprising Battle of Korsun Tarasova Night	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Renewed agreement
1635	Capture of Kodak	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat, despite Kodak Fortress was destroyed
1637	Pavlyuk Uprising Battle of Kumeyki Capture of Pereiaslav Assault of Cherkasy	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat
1638	Ostryanyn Uprising Battle of Govtva Dmytro Hunia's Dnipro raid Battle of Zhovnyn Siege of Starets	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat
1648–1657 1651	Khmelnytsky Uprising Battle of Berestechko (see also)	Zaporozhian Cossacks Crimean Tatars (1649–1654, 1656–1657)	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Tatars (1654–1656)	Emerging of Cossack state
1657–1658	Barabash Uprising	Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Tatars	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Instead of previous uprisings this one was not against Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but against actual hetman of Cossack state Ivan Vyhovsky. The uprising was defeated and Russo-Ukrainian war of 1658–1659 began.
1659	Bohun Uprising	Cossack Hetmanate Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Khanate	Zaporozhian Cossacks Tsardom of Russia	As well as Barabash Uprising this one was against actual hetman of Cossack state Ivan Vyhovsky. The uprising won, Vyhovsky fled to Poland.
1702–1704	Paliy Uprising	Zaporozhian Cossacks Cossack Hetmanate Tsardom of Russia	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Uprising was defeated, but Right-bank Ukraine became part of Cossack Hetmanate.
1734	Haidamak Uprising, 1734	Haidamakas	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Defeat
1750	Haidamak Uprising, 1750	Haidamakas	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Russian Empire	Defeat
1768–1769	Koliivshchyna	Haidamakas	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Russian Empire	Defeat

Cossack naval campaigns

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1602	Raid on Kiliya	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory
1606	Raid on Kiliya and Akkerman	Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Hryhoriy Izapovych		Victory
1607	Raid on Ochakiv	Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny		Victory
1608	Raid on Perekop	Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny		Victory
1609	Raid on Kiliya, Izmayil and Akkerman	Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny		Victory
1613	Raid on Northern Turkey	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory
1614	Raid on Trabzon and Sinop in Northern Turkey	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory
1615	Raid on Constantinople	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory
1616	Raid on Kafa in Crimea, Trabzon and Sinop in Northern Turkey	Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny	Crimean Khanate	Victory
1617	Raid on Constantinople	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory
1620	Raid on Constantinople	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory
1624	Raids on Istanbul	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Victory

Other conflicts

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1558–1583		Livonian Confederation Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union) Denmark–Norway Sweden Zaporozhian Cossacks Principality of Transylvania (after 1577)	Tsardom of Russia Qasim Khanate Kingdom of Livonia	Victory
1577	Ivan Pidkova's Moldavian campaign	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Pidkova became ruler of Moldavia.
1591–1606	Long War	Crown of Bohemia Kingdom of Hungary Kingdom of Croatia Transylvania Zaporozhian Host Spain Serbian hajduks Tuscany Persia Knights of St. Stephen Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Mantua	Crimean Khanate Nogai Khanate	Peace of Zsitvatorok
1620–1621 1621	Polish–Ottoman War Battle of Khotyn	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Zaporozhian Cossacks		Indecisive.
1654–67	Russo-Polish War	Tsardom of Russia Ukrainian Cossacks	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Crimean Khanate Ukrainian Cossacks	Treaty of Andrusovo, division of Cossack Hetmanate between Poland and Russia
1658–1659 1659	Russo-Ukrainian / Moscovian-Cossack war Battle of Konotop	Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Tsardom of Russia	Pereyaslav Articles
1650, 1652, 1653	Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Moldavian campaign	Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Principality of Moldavia Principality of Wallachia Principality of Transylvania Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Status quo
1655–1660 1655–1660	Deluge	Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–1657) Principality of Transylvania Cossack Hetmanate (1657) Grand Duchy of Lithuania	Poland–Lithuania Denmark–Norway Russia (1656–1658) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–1656, 1657–1660) Dutch Republic	Indecisive for Ukraine
1663–1675	Turkish-Cossack conflict	Zaporozhian Cossacks of Ivan Sirko	Crimean Khanate	Victory
1666–1671	Polish–Cossack–Tatar War	Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Start of Polish–Ottoman War
1672–1676 1673	Battle of Khotyn	Crimean Khanate Principality of Moldavia Cossack Hetmanate (Doroshenko's faction)	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (in 1673)	Ottoman Empire won control over parts of Ukraine
1676–1681		Tsardom of Russia Zaporozhian Cossacks (Samoylovych)	Crimean Khanate Zaporozhian Cossacks (Doroshenko)	Treaty of Bakhchisarai
1683–1699 1683 1683	Battle of Vienna Stefan Kunicki's Moldavian and Right-bank campaign	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Allied Holy League forces Zaporozhian Cossacks (Left-bank)	Zaporozhian Cossacks (Right-bank)	Decisive Holy League victory.
1686–1700		Tsardom of Russia Habsburg Empire Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack Hetmanate		Victory
1700–1721 1709	Great Northern War Battle of Poltava	Crimean Khanate Cossack Hetmanate Great Britain	Tsardom of Russia Electorate of Saxony Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Denmark–Norway Cossack Hetmanate Kingdom of Prussia Electorate of Hanover Great Britain	Defeat
1710–1711		Crimean Khanate Swedish Empire Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Pylyp Orlyk) Zaporizhian Sich	Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Ivan Skoropadsky)	Ottoman victory. Treaty of Pruth
1735–1739	Austro-Russian–Turkish War	Cossack Hetmanate	Crimean Khanate	Treaty of Niš, Treaty of Belgrade
1768–1774	Russo-Turkish War	Zaporozhian Host Greek insurgents Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti Kingdom of Imereti	Crimean Khanate	Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
1775	the fall of Zaporizhian Sich	Zaporozhian Cossacks		Defeat

Under Austrian and Russian empires

See main article: article.

War of independence (1917–1921)

See main article: article and List of battles involving the Ukrainian People's Republic. This section contains list of wars involving different Ukrainian states de facto existed between 1917 and 1922 (Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian State, Western Ukrainian People's Republic, Hutsul Republic, Komancza Republic) and other Ukrainian anti-bolshevik state formations (Kuban People's Republic, Makhnovshchina, Ukrainian Republic of the Far East).

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1917–1921 1918 1918	Ukrainian War of Independence — Ukrainian–Soviet War Battle of Kiev (1918) Battle of Kruty	Ukrainian Galician Army (until 1918)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Bolshevik victory
7–8 January 1919	Hutsul uprising	Hutsul Republic		Victory
1918–1919 1918 1918 1919	Ukrainian War of Independence — Polish–Ukrainian War Battle of Lemberg Battle of Przemyśl Chortkiv offensive	West Ukrainian People's Republic Hutsul Republic Komancza Republic		Polish victory: Treaty of Warsaw (1920) Second Polish Republic recognises the independence of Ukrainian People's Republic, but it becomes a de facto Polish protectorate All other Ukrainian-led rebel republics are annexed by Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary or Romania
1919–1921	Polish–Soviet War (see also List of battles of the Polish–Soviet War)		Polrewkom	Polish victory: Treaty of Riga (1921) Ukrainian People's Republic is defeated; most of Ukraine's territory becomes part of the Ukrainian SSR, which joins the Soviet Union in 1922 Second Polish Republic achieves independence and annexes parts of western Ukraine.
1917–1920	Russian Civil War — Southern Front	Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Insurgent Army^[4]	Russian SFSR^[5] Ukrainian SSR^[6] South Russia Insurgent Army	Bolshevik victory
1920-1921	Soviet-Makhnovist conflict	Makhnovshchina		Soviet victory: Makhnovists Defeated Anarchists destroyed & retreat to Roumania. Fail to create new Ukrainian State.
1918–1923	Russian Civil War — Eastern Front	Green Ukraine Buryat-Mongolia	Transbaikal Republic	Bolshevik victory

Interwar period (1922–1938)

See also: List of wars involving the Soviet Union. In 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was incorporated into the Soviet Union. No major armed conflicts on Soviet Ukrainian territory would take place until 1939, although Ukrainian 'national units' would be used as national military formations of the Red Army until 1934 and, as such, fight in Soviet armed conflicts elsewhere in the world. Also, as a response to the collectivization, various peasant rebellions took place in 1929-1933 across the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, which were suppressed by the Soviet authorities.^[7] The western areas of Ukraine (including most of the former West Ukrainian People's Republic's claimed territories) that were annexed by the Second Polish Republic similarly saw no fighting in the interwar period until 1939, although some small and brief armed conflicts did occur elsewhere in Poland in this period.

World War II (1939–1945)

See main article: article. This section contains only military activity of non-Soviet and non-Nazi Ukrainian organizations.

Date	Conflict	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
1939	Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ukraine			Defeat
1939–1947	World War II — Polish-Ukrainian conflict	Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army	Home Army People's Army Polish People's Republic	Soviet occupation of Western Ukraine Home Army units in Galicia and Volhynia were dissolved under Soviet pressure Polish–Soviet border agreement Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine Vistula Operation and subsequent defeat of UPA in Polish People's Republic UPA and the Polish undergroung (Cursed soldiers) continued anti-communist resistance in post-war Ukraine and Poland respectively
1941	World War II — Declaration of Ukrainian Independence, 1941	Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists		Cessation of OUN and German co-operation, commencement of the purely pro-Ukrainian UPA
1942–1944	World War II — Non-Soviet anti-Nazi activity	Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army		Potsdam Conference
1942–1960	World War II — Anti-Soviet activity	Ukrainian Insurgent Army Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army		Cessation of activity

Peacekeeping missions

Completed

Mission	Start-date	End-date	Location	Troops (regular)
UNPROFOR	1992	1995		1,303
UNMOT	1994	2000	Tajikistan	21
UNMIBH	1995	1999		400
UNPREDEP	1995	1999		1
UNTAES	1996	1998	Croatia (Slavonija)	511
MONUA	1996	1999	Angola	216
UNMOP	1996	2002	Croatia (Prevlaka)	2
MINUGUA	1997	1997	Guatemala	8
Ukraine Diplomatic Support in Transnistria	1990	1992		0
UNOMIG	1999	2005		530
UNIFIL	2000	2006	Lebanon	650
ISAF	2000	2001		1
UNAMSIL	2001	2005	Sierra Leone	530
UNIKOM	2003	2003	Kuwait	448
UNMIL	2003	2018	Liberia	275
UNMEE	2004	2008	Ethiopia Eritrea	7
MNF-I	2005	2008	Iraq	1,660
UNOMIG	2008	2009	Georgia	37
UNOCI	2011	2017	Cote d'Ivoire	1,303

Withdrawn

Mission	Start-date	End-date	Location	Troops (regular)
Kosovo Force	1999	2022 (August 3)^[8]	Kosovo	40
MONUSCO	2000	2022 (September 18)^[9]		250
UNMISS	2012	2022 (April)^[10]		28^[11]
MINUSMA	2019	2022 (March)^[12]	Mali	20

See also

• List of conflicts in Europe
  • List of wars between Russia and Ukraine
• List of wars involving the Soviet Union

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Notes and References

1. Encyclopedia: Oekraïne §5. Geschiedenis . . 1993–2002 . Microsoft Corporation/Het Spectrum . nl.
2. Web site: Інститут історії України . 2022-08-23 . history.org.ua.
3. Web site: Історія . 2022-08-23 . www.museumsun.org.
4. Insurgent Army was an ally both of Ukrainian states and Soviets in different times.
5. White Army and Red Army were not allies but both of them were opponents of Ukrainian movement.
6. White Army and Red Army were not allies but both of them were opponents of Ukrainian movement.
7. Viola, Lynne (1999). Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195131048
8. Web site: Ukraine to start pullout of peacekeepers from Kosovo - report . Reuters . en . 3 August 2022.
9. Web site: Cyuzuzo . Samba . Ukraine troops leave DR Congo peacekeeping mission Monusco . BBC News . 2022-09-18 . 2023-10-20.
10. Web site: Troop and police contributors . United Nations Peacekeeping . 2023-10-20.
11. https://smc.naiau.kiev.ua/p%D1%96vdennij-sudan/ Спецільний миротворчий центр / Special peacekeeping center
12. Web site: Troop and police contributors . United Nations Peacekeeping . 2023-10-20.