List of wars between Russia and Ukraine

There have been a number of major conflicts between Ukraine and Russia throughout history.

List

• Vyhovsky rebellion
  • Zaporizhzhia Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky opposed the Muscovian government, it did not have support among the bulk of the troops and people of the then Ukraine, so Barbash and Pushkar raised their rebellion against him, but it was suppressed. The positions of the Russian army were undermined due to the uprising in the rear and they had to leave the right-bank Ukraine while retaining Kyiv. Vyhovsky tried to take it by storm, but it was not successful. The decisive battle took place in the summer of 1659, as a decisive battle result of which the Muscovites were defeated. A new uprising took place against him under the leadership of Yuri Khmelnytsky, the armies stood up under the white church, but the Cossacks of Vyhovsky, seeing the senseless struggle against the Muscovites, made a mistake they sided with Yuri and forced Vyhovsky to flee.^[1][2]
    • Belgorod regiment campaign Muscovian victory; Vyhovsky fails the siege of Kyiv and accepts Muscovian citizenship^[3]
    • Battle of Konotop

• Left-bank uprising (1668-1669) The uprising of the Ukrainian Cossacks against the Moscovia kingdom, at the beginning the uprising was successful, but soon fell into decline and was suppressed; the return of Left-Bank Ukraine to Moscovia^[4]
  • Siege of Chernihiv (1668)
  • Battle of Sevsk
• The Muscovite-Ukrainian War (1674–1676) was the war of Hetman Petro Doroshenko against the Moscow state.^[5]
  • The march of Petro Doroshenko's troops on the Left-bank Ukraine. June 8, 1668 proclamation of Petro Doroshenko – Hetman of All Ukraine.
  • The 30,000-strong Muscovite army and Samoilovych's regiments laid siege to Chyhyryn in 1676. The end of the military campaign against Hetman Petro Doroshenko.
• Northern war in Ukraine in 1708–1712
  • Pylyp Orlyk's March on the Right-bank Ukraine (1711) [uk]^[6]
  • Battle of Lysianka
  • Siege of Bila Tserkva

Ukraine as part of the Russian Empire

• Kyiv Cossacks insurrection during the Crimean War in 1855.^[7]

Against Soviet Russia

Ukrainian People's Republic

• Ukrainian–Soviet War in 1917–1922.^[8]
  • 1919 Soviet invasion of Ukraine was a major offensive of the Soviet troops of the Ukrainian Front against the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic.
  • Local supporters of the Ukrainian People's Republic created anti-Bolshevik rebellion states on occupied territories, e.g. the Independent Medvyn Republic^[9] and Kholodny Yar Republic.^[10] They kept fighting against Russian Bolsheviks and collaborators until 1923.^[11]
  • First Winter Campaign was a campaign by the Army of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) against Russian Bolshevik forces December 6, 1919 – May 6, 1920.
  • Second Winter Campaign was a failed military campaign by the Ukrainian National Army in October and November 1921 against the Russian Bolsheviks.

Ukrainian Insurgent Army

• Anti-Soviet resistance by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a war of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army against the Soviet Union during and after the Second World War.

Independent Ukraine

• Russo-Ukrainian War (since 2014) is the war between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, in which Russia occupied and annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula, before culminating in an open invasion.
  • Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
  • War in Donbas^[12]
  • Russian invasion of Ukraine is the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in 2022

See also

• Ukraine portal

• 1918 Russia–Ukraine negotiations
• List of wars involving Russia
• List of wars involving Ukraine
• List of invasions and occupations of Ukraine

References

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2. Гумилев 2023, p. 414.
3. Бабулин И. Б. Битва под Конотопом. 28 июня 1659 года. – М.: Цейхгауз, 2009. – ISBN 978-5-9771-0099-1. P. 13
4. Бабулин И.Б. Война за возвращение Украины 1668–1669 гг.. — М. : Русские Витязи, 2021.
5. Надворний, Володимир. "Гетьман Петро Дорошенко (1665–1676 pp.) в сучасній українській історіографії (90 pp. XX – поч. XXI ст.)" [Hetman Petro Doroshenko (pp. 1665–1676) in modern Ukrainian historiography (90 pp. XX – early XXI centuries)] (PDF). shron1.chtyvo.org.ua. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-03-15. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
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7. ЛЯХ, Сергій. "КИЇВСЬКА КОЗАЧЧИНА 1855" [Kyiv Cossack Region 1855]. Енциклопедія історії України.
8. "Радянсько-Українська війна 1917–21 рр" [The Soviet-Ukrainian War of 1917–21]. prosvit.in.ua. Archived from the original on 2022-04-07. Retrieved 2022-03-15.
9. "Медвинська республіка: спротив російсько–більшовицьким окупантам" [The Medvyn Republic: resistance to the Russian-Bolshevik occupiers]. www.ukrinform.ua (in Ukrainian). 10 October 2016. Archived from the original on 23 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
10. Коваль, Роман. "Начерк до історії Холодноярської організації 1917–1922 років" [An outline of the history of the Kholodnoyarsk organization of 1917–1922]. chtyvo.org.ua. Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
11. (in Ukrainian) Uprising in Lukyanovka Prison: How the Last Battle of the Cold Yar Atamans took place Archived 2020-08-04 at the Wayback Machine, Espresso TV (9 February 2020)
12. "10 facts you should know about russian military aggression against Ukraine". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

Bibliography

• Гумилев, Лев (2023). От Руси к России. Moscow: Москва. ISBN 978-5-17-153845-3.