List of wars involving Ukraine

The following is an incomplete list of major wars fought by Ukraine, by Ukrainian people or regular armies during periods when independent Ukrainian states existed, from antiquity to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside of Ukraine by Ukrainian military.

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) Boleslaw I's intervention in the Kievan succession crisis	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
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 Battle of Zawichost	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
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
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 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
1431–35	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

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 Battle of Berestechko (see also Category:Battles of the 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 Russian Empire	Defeat
1768-69	Koliyivshchyna	Haidamakas	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 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 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 Crown of Bohemia  Saxony  Austria 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 Battle of Khotyn	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 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
1655–60 1655–60	Second Northern War Deluge	Swedish Empire Brandenburg-Prussia (1656–57) Principality of Transylvania Cossack Hetmanate (1657) Grand Duchy of Lithuania  Wallachia  Moldavia	Poland–Lithuania Denmark–Norway  Habsburg Monarchy Russia (1656–58) Crimean Khanate Brandenburg-Prussia (1655–56, 1657–60) Dutch Republic	Indecisive for Ukraine
1666–71	Polish–Cossack–Tatar War	Cossack Hetmanate Crimean Khanate	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Start of Polish–Ottoman War
1672–76 1673	Polish–Ottoman War Battle of Khotyn	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate 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	Tsardom of Russia Zaporozhian Cossacks (Samoylovych)	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Zaporozhian Cossacks (Doroshenko)	Treaty of Bakhchisarai
1683–99 1683 1683	Polish–Ottoman War Battle of Vienna Stefan Kunicki's Moldavian and Right-bank campaign	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Allied Holy League forces Zaporozhian Cossacks (Left-bank)	Ottoman Empire Zaporozhian Cossacks (Right-bank)	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 Battle of Poltava	Swedish Empire (1700–21) Holstein–Gottorp (1700–19) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1704–09) Ottoman Empire (1710–14) Crimean Khanate  Moldavia  Wallachia Cossack Hetmanate (1708–09) Great Britain (1719–21)	Tsardom of Russia (1700–21) Electorate of Saxony (1700–06, 1709–19) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1701–04, 1704–09, 1709–19) Denmark–Norway (1700, 1709–20) Cossack Hetmanate (1700–08, 1709–1721) Kingdom of Prussia (1715–20) Electorate of Hanover (1715–19) Great Britain (1717–19)  Moldavia (1711)	Defeat
1710-11	Pruth River Campaign	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate  Wallachia Swedish Empire Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Pylyp Orlyk) Zaporizhian Sich	Tsardom of Russia Cossack Hetmanate (fraction of Ivan Skoropadsky)  Moldavia	Decisive Ottoman victory. Treaty of Pruth
1735-39	Austro-Russian–Turkish War	Russian Empire Cossack Hetmanate  Habsburg Empire	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate	Treaty of Niš, Treaty of Belgrade
1768-74	Russo-Turkish War	Russian Empire Zaporozhian Host Greek insurgents Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti Kingdom of Imereti	Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate Republic of Ragusa	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 Independence — Ukrainian–Soviet War Battle of Kiev (1918) Battle of Kruty	Ukraine Ukrainian Galician Army  German Empire (until 1918)	Russian SFSR Ukrainian SSR	Defeat
1918-19 1918 1918 1919	Ukrainian War of Independence — Polish–Ukrainian War Battle of Lemberg Battle of Przemyśl Chortkiv offensive	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 War — Southern Front	Ukraine Georgia Armenia Azerbaijan Black Army[1]	Red Army[2] White Army[2] Black Army[1]	Defeat
1918-23	Russian Civil War — Eastern Front	Green Ukraine Buryat-Mongolia	White Movement[2] Bolshevik[2]	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 II — Declaration 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
1995–2002	Angolan Civil War	MPLA SWAPO MK  Cuba (1975–91)  East Germany (1975–89)  Soviet Union (1975–89)[3] EO (1992–95)  Ukraine (from 1995)[4]	UNITA FNLA FLEC  South Africa (1975–89)  Zaire (1975)[5]	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
2003–2011	Iraq War[6]	United States  United Kingdom  Australia  Spain  Poland  Romania  Estonia  South Korea  Italy  Denmark  Spain  Ukraine(from 2004)	al-Qaeda in Iraq Mahdi Army Baath Loyalists	Victory Overthrow of Ba'ath Party government and execution of Saddam Hussein Iraqi insurgency, emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and civil war[7] Subsequent depletion of al-Qaeda in Iraq,[8][9] improvements in public security,[10] Iraqi insurgency persists[9] Establishment of democratic elections and formation of new Shia-led government U.S.–Iraq Status of Forces Agreement
2014	Crimean crisis (Russian intervention)	Ukraine	Russia	Annexation of Crimea
2014–2016	War in Donbass (Timeline)	Ukraine	Federal State of Novorossiya  People's Republic of Donetsk  People's Republic of Lugansk  Russia	Ongoing

Peacekeeping missions

Completed

Mission	Start-date	End-date	Location	Troops (regular)
UNPROFOR	1992	1995	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 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

References

1. Black Army was an ally both of Ukrainian states and Soviets in different times.
2. White Army and Red Army were not allies but both of them were opponents of Ukrainian movement.
3. "AfricanCrisis". AfricanCrisis. Retrieved 2013-08-18.
4. Vines (1999), pp. 103–104.
5. Perez de Cuellar C. Pilgrimage for Peace: A Secretary-General's Memoir pp. 325–326
6. "Ukrainians complete mission in Iraq". US Army.
7. "Sectarian divisions change Baghdad's image". MSNBC. 3 July 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2007.
8. "U.S. says Iraq pullout won't cause dramatic violence". MSNBC. 18 November 2010. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved 26 November 2010.
9. "The JRTN Movement and Iraq's Next Insurgency | Combating Terrorism Center at West Point". Ctc.usma.edu. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
10. "UK 'to continue deporting failed Iraqi asylum seekers'". BBC News. 22 November 2010. Retrieved 26 November 2010.

Sources

• Крип'якевич І., Гнатевич Б. та ін. Історія українського війська. – Львів, 1992. – С.193-194
• Сокульський А.Л. Флот Запорозької Січі в XVI-XVIII ст.: структурна організація, технологія та військове мистецтво. Дис. к.і.н. – К., 1999. – С.113-114.