List of wars involving Ukraine

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The separate section contains list of wars involving Crimean Tatars' states.

The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:

  Ukrainian victory
  Ukrainian defeat
  Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
  Ongoing conflict

Kievan Rus

This section contains list of wars involving Kievan Rus' and its principalities located on the territory of modern Ukraine (Principality of Kyiv, Principality of Chernigov, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Principality of Volhynia, Principality of Terebovlia, Principality of Halych, Principality of Turov and Pinsk), Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia and Ukrainian duchies under Polish and Lithuanian crowns (like Duchy of Kyiv).

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
830s Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus' Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Unclear
860 Rus'–Byzantine War (860) Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Victory
907 Rus'–Byzantine War (907) Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Victory
920-1036 Rus'-Pechenegs' campaigns Kievan Rus' Pechenegs Different results
941 Rus'–Byzantine War (941) Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Defeat
964-965 Sviatoslav's campaign against Khazars Kievan Rus' Khazar Khaganate Victory. Destruction of Khazar Khaganate.
967/968–971 Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Victory
981 Rus' raid on Czerwień Towns Kievan Rus' Duchy of Poland Victory
987 Rus'–Byzantine War (987) Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Agreement. Baptism of Vladimir and further Christianization of Kievan Rus'.
1018 German–Polish War (1002–18) Kievan Rus' Duchy of Poland Defeat
1022 Yaroslav the Wise's attack on Brest Kievan Rus' Duchy of Poland Defeat
1024 Rus'–Byzantine War (1024) Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Defeat
1043 Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) Kievan Rus'  Byzantine Empire Defeat
1055-1223 Rus'-Cumans' campaigns Kievan Rus' Cumans Different results
1069, 1074, 1077 Bolesław II the Generous's raids on Rus' Kievan Rus' Kingdom of Poland Defeats
1076 Bolesław II the Generous's raid on Bohemia Kingdom of Poland
Kievan Rus'
Duchy of Bohemia Polish victory
1092 Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Poland Kievan Rus' Kingdom of Poland Victory
1101 Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Poland Kievan Rus' Kingdom of Poland Victory
1120 Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Poland Kievan Rus' Kingdom of Poland Victory
1139–1142 Fights between Duchy of Masovia and Rus' Kievan Rus' Bolesław IV the Curly Victory
1147 Bolesław IV the Curly's raid on Old Prussians Bolesław IV the Curly
Kievan Rus'
Old Prussians Bolesław IV the Curly's victory
1187 Ruthenian raid on Lesser Poland Principality of Halych Casimir II the Just Victory
1188–1189 Béla III's military campaign against Halych Principality of Halych Kingdom of Hungary Defeat
1189 Casimir II the Just's raid on Halych Kingdom of Hungary
Principality of Halych
Casimir II the Just Defeat
1205 Roman the Great's raid on Poland Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Leszek I the White Defeat. Death of Roman the Great.
1207 Leszek I the White's raid on Rus' Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Leszek I the White
Konrad I of Masovia
Defeat
1213–1214, 1219, 1233–1234 Andrew II's military campaigns against Halych Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Kingdom of Hungary Victory. Hungarian retreat.
1214 Leszek I the White's raid on Volodymyr-Volynskyi Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Leszek I the White
Kingdom of Hungary
Defeat
1218–1221 Polish-Hungarian-Ruthenian War Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Leszek I the White
Kingdom of Hungary
Victory
1223–1240 Mongol invasion of Rus'
(see also List of Tatar and Mongol raids against Rus')
Vladimir-Suzdal
Kyiv
Galicia-Volhynia
Novgorod Republic
Smolensk
Turov and Pinsk
Rostov
Chernigov
Ryazan
Pereyaslavl
Mongol Empire Defeat. Principalities of Kievan State becoming vassals of the Mongol Golden Horde.
1236–1237
  • 1236
Wars between Konrad I of Masovia and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
  • Battle of Czerwień
Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Konrad I of Masovia Victory
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
1389–92 Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92) Teutonic Knights
Samogitia
Rus' principalities
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland
Ostrów Agreement
1409-11
  • 1410
Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War Kingdom of Poland
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Ruthenia, Masovia, Moldavia, Tatars, Czechs, Bohemia, Moravia, Wallachia, Smolensk
State of the Teutonic Order Victory
1431–35 Lithuanian Civil War (1431–35) Grand Duchy of Rus' (Polotsk, Vitebsk, Smolensk, Kiev, 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

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

Uprisings

Main article: Cossack uprisings
Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1591–93 Kosiński Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Defeat
1594-96 Nalyvaiko Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Defeat
1625 Zhmaylo Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Treaty of Kurukove
1630 Fedorovych Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Renewed agreement
1635 Sulyma Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Kodak Fortress destroyed
1637 Pavlyuk Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Defeat
1638 Ostryanyn Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Defeat
1648–1657
  • 1651
Khmelnytsky Uprising Zaporozhian Cossacks
Crimean Tatars (1649 - 1654, 1656 - 1657)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crimean Tatars (1654 - 1656)
Emergence 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 1658-59 began.
1659 Bohun Uprising Cossack Hetmanate
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
 Ottoman Empire
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.
1702-04 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
Russia Russian Empire
Defeat
1768-69 Koliyivshchyna Haidamakas Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Russia Russian Empire
Defeat

Cossack naval campaigns

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

Other conflicts

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1558–83 Livonian War Livonian Confederation
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union)
Denmark–Norway
Sweden 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  Moldavia
 Ottoman Empire
Pidkova became ruler of Moldavia.
1591–1606 Long War  Holy Roman Empire

Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Croatia
Transylvania
 Wallachia
 Moldavia
Zaporozhian Host
 Spain
Serbian hajduks
 Papal States
 Venice
Tuscany
Persia
Knights of St. Stephen
Duchy of Ferrara
Duchy of Mantua
Republic of Ragusa
 Duchy of Savoy

 Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Nogai Khanate
Peace of Zsitvatorok
1620-1621
  • 1621
Polish–Ottoman War Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Zaporozhian Cossacks
 Ottoman Empire 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
1658-59
  • 1659
Russo-Ukrainian / Moscovian-Cossack war 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
1655–60
  • 1655–60
Second Northern War Sweden Swedish Empire
Brandenburg Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57)
Principality of Transylvania
Cossack Hetmanate (1657)
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
 Wallachia
 Moldavia
Poland–Lithuania
Denmark Denmark–Norway
 Habsburg Monarchy
Russia (1656–58)
Crimean Khanate
Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60)
Dutch Republic
Indecisive for Ukraine
1663–1675 Turkish-Cossack conflict Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ivan Sirko Crimean Khanate
 Ottoman Empire
Victory
1666–71 Polish–Cossack–Tatar War Cossack Hetmanate
Crimean Khanate
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Start of Polish–Ottoman War
1672–76
  • 1673
Polish–Ottoman War  Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Moldavia Principality of Moldavia
Cossack Hetmanate (Doroshenko's faction)
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
 Principality of Wallachia (in 1673)
Ottoman Empire won control over parts of Ukraine
1676–81 Russo-Turkish War Russia Tsardom of Russia  Ottoman Empire Treaty of Bakhchisarai
1683–99
  • 1683
  • 1683
Polish–Ottoman War Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth  Ottoman Empire Decisive Holy League victory.
1686-1700 Russo-Turkish War Tsardom of Russia
Habsburg Empire
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Cossack Hetmanate
 Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate
Victory
1700–21
  • 1709
Great Northern War Sweden Swedish Empire
(1700–21)
Holstein–Gottorp
(1700–19)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1704–09)
Ottoman Empire Ottoman Empire (1710–14)

Cossack Hetmanate (1708–09)
Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain
(1719–21)

Russia Tsardom of Russia
(1700–21)
Electorate of Saxony Electorate of Saxony
(1700–06, 1709–19)
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1701–04, 1704–09, 1709–19)
Denmark Denmark–Norway
(1700, 1709–20)
Cossack Hetmanate
(1700–08, 1709–1721)
Kingdom of Prussia Kingdom of Prussia (1715–20)
Province of Hanover Electorate of Hanover (1715–19)
Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain
(1717–19)
 Moldavia (1711)
Defeat
1710-11 Pruth River Campaign  Ottoman Empire

Sweden Swedish Empire
Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Pylyp Orlyk)
Zaporizhian Sich

Russian Empire Tsardom of Russia
Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Ivan Skoropadsky)
 Moldavia
Decisive Ottoman victory. Treaty of Pruth
1735-39 Austro-Russian–Turkish War  Russian Empire

 Habsburg Empire

 Ottoman Empire Treaty of Niš, Treaty of Belgrade
1768-74 Russo-Turkish War  Russian Empire

Greek insurgents
Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti
Kingdom of Imereti

 Ottoman Empire Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
1775 the fall of Zaporizhian Sich Zaporozhian Cossacks  Russian Empire Defeat

Under Austrian and Russian empires

War of independence

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, Free Territory, Ukrainian Republic of the Far East).

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1917-21
  • 1918
  • 1918
Ukrainian War of IndependenceUkrainian–Soviet War
Ukraine
Ukraine Ukrainian Galician Army
 German Empire (until 1918)
Russian SFSR
Ukrainian SSR
Defeat
7-8 January 1919 Hutsul uprising Hutsul Republic
Hungary
Victory
1918-19
  • 1918
  • 1918
  • 1919
Ukrainian War of IndependencePolish–Ukrainian War
West Ukrainian People's Republic

Ukrainian People's Republic
Hutsul Republic
Komancza Republic

Poland

Romania
Hungary
Czechoslovakia

Defeat
1919-21 Polish–Soviet War
(see also List of battles of the Polish–Soviet War)
Republic of Poland

Ukrainian People's Republic

 Russian SFSR
 Ukrainian SSR
Polish victory, Ukrainian defeat (Peace of Riga)
1917-20 Russian Civil WarSouthern Front Ukraine
Georgia
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Black Army[groupnameA 1]
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Red Army[groupnameB 1]


White Army[groupnameB 1]
Black Army[groupnameA 1]

Defeat
1918-23 Russian Civil WarEastern Front Green Ukraine
Buryat-Mongolia
White Movement[groupnameB 1]
Bolshevik[groupnameB 1]
Defeat

As a part of Soviet Union

This section contains list of wars involving also different Soviet republics which were located on the territory of modern Ukraine and were de jure independent (Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Ukrainian Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic, Odessa Soviet Republic, Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic).

World War II

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 Carpatho-Ukraine Hungary Defeat
1941 World War IIDeclaration of Ukrainian Independence, 1941 Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists  Nazi Germany Defeat
1942–44 World War II — Non-Soviet anti-Nazi activity Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
 Nazi Germany Potsdam Conference
1942–47 World War II — Non-Soviet anti-Polish activity Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
Armia Krajowa
Armia Ludowa
Polish–Soviet border agreement and Vistula Operation
1942–50 World War II — Anti-Soviet activity Ukrainian Insurgent Army
Ukrainian People's Revolutionary Army
 Soviet Union Cessation of activity

Wars involving Crimean Tatars' states

This section contains wars involving Crimean Khanate and Crimean People's Republic.

Since 1991

Date Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Result
1975–2002 Angolan Civil War Angola MPLA
SWAPO
MK
 Cuba (1975-91)
 East Germany (1975-89)
 Soviet Union (1975-89)
Executive Outcomes (1992-95)
 Yugoslavia
UNITA
FNLA
FLEC
 South Africa (1975-89)
 Zaire (1975)
Victory
  • Withdrawal of all foreign forces in 1989
  • Transition towards a multiparty political system in 1991/92
  • Dissolution of the armed forces of FNLA
  • Participation of UNITA and FNLA, as political parties, in the new political system, from 1991/92 onwards, but civil war continues
  • Jonas Savimbi killed in 2002
  • Immediate peace agreement and dissolution of the armed forces of UNITA in 2002
  • Resistance of FLEC continued beyond 2002
2001 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia  Macedonia

 Ukraine[1][2][3](main arms supply)

National Liberation Army
 NATO
Ceasefire
  • Ohrid Agreement
  • Macedonian offensive stopped by NATO involvement
  • Ceasefire established
  • The majority of Albanian insurgents agree to disarm in exchange for greater ethnic rights
  • Low intensity resurgence since November 2001
2014 Crimean crisis
(Russian intervention)
 Ukraine  Russia Annexation of Crimea
2014–2016 War in Donbass
(Timeline)
 Ukraine  Federal State of Novorossiya

 Russia

Ongoing

Peacekeeping missions

Completed

Mission Start-date End-date Location Troops (regular)
UNPROFOR 1992 1995 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia 1303
UNMOT 1994 2000  Tajikistan 21
UNMIBH 1995 1999 Bosnia and Hercegovina 400
UNPREDEP 1995 1999 Republic of Macedonia 1
UNTAES 1996 1998  Croatia (Slavonija) 511
MONUA 1996 1999  Angola 216
UNMOP 1996 2002  Croatia
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia
(Prevlaka)
2
MINUGUA 1997 1997  Guatemala 8
1998 2001 Kosovo 23
1999 2003 Kosovo 149
UNOMIG 1999 2005 Georgia 530
UNIFIL 2000 2006  Lebanon 650
ISAF 2000 2001 Afghanistan 1
UNAMSIL 2001 2005  Sierra Leone 530
UNIKOM 2003 2003  Kuwait 448
UNMEE 2004 2008  Ethiopia
 Eritrea
7
MNF-I 2005 2008  Iraq 1690
2008 2009  Georgia 37

Current

Mission Start-date Location Troops (regular)
MONUC
MONUSCO
2000  Congo DR 13
UNMIL 2003  Liberia 275
UNOCI 2011  Côte d'Ivoire 1303

Notes

  1. 1 2 Black Army was an ally both of Ukrainian states and Soviets in different times.
  1. 1 2 3 4 White Army and Red Army were not allies but both of them were opponents of Ukrainian movement.

References

  1. Zerkalo Nedeli (28 February 2002). "Paper critical of Western call on Ukraine to stop selling arms to Macedonia". Free Republic. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  2. Carlotta Gall (23 July 2001). "Rebels Secure a Base in Macedonian Town". New York Times. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
  3. Taras Kuzio (31 October 2001). "UKRAINE FORGES MILITARY ALLIANCE WITH MACEDONIA". The Jamestown. Retrieved 5 May 2015.

Sources

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