List of wars between Russia and Ukraine

This article provides a list of armed conflicts in which Russian and Ukrainian national groups (under various historical statehoods) fought against each other.

Date	Conflict	Belligerents	Belligerents	Result	Note
16th–17th centuries	Cossack raids into Russia	Zaporozhian Cossacks	Tsardom of Russia	Inconclusive	Cossack forces devastate Russian borderlands in sporadic incursions aimed at looting and sometimes settling territory, but no strategic campaign mounted against the Tsar.
1658	Romadanovsky invasion of Ukraine	Cossack Hetmanate	Tsardom of Russia	Russian victory	Armistice of Varva; Vyhovsky accepts Russian citizenship.^[1]
1659	Second Vyhovsky uprising	Cossack Hetmanate	Tsardom of Russia Zaporozhian Sich	Russian victory	After a short-term success at Konotop, Russia again invades Ukrainian territories alongside loyalist Cossacks to overthrow Vyhovsky;^[2] Pereiaslav Articles enacted.
1668–1669	Bryukhovetsky uprising	Cossack Hetmanate Zaporozhian Sich	Tsardom of Russia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Uprising suppressed	Moscow Articles of 1665 revised and Hlukhiv articles [ru] enacted, but Russia consolidates rule of left-bank Ukraine.
1708–1712	Northern War in Ukraine Orlyk's March on Right-Bank Ukraine Destruction of the Zaporozhian Sich [uk] Battle of Poltava	Cossack Hetmanate Swedish Empire Ottoman Empire Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Leszczyński)	Tsardom of Russia	Russian victory	Cossack Hetmanate loses autonomy as well as all legal and international properties, therefore ceasing to exist as a state.
1734	Haydamak uprising of 1734	Haydamaks	Tsardom of Russia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Uprising suppressed
1750	Haydamak uprising of 1750	Haydamaks	Tsardom of Russia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Uprising suppressed
1768–1769	Koliivshchyna	Haydamak	Tsardom of Russia Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Uprising suppressed
1855	Kyiv Cossack insurrection	Cossacks	Russian Empire	Uprising suppressed
1917–1918	First Ukrainian–Soviet War	Russian SFSR	Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1918) Ukrainian State (1918) German Empire Austro-Hungarian Monarchy	Ukrainian victory	Establishment of the Ukrainian State under the Central Powers in the prosperous opening stage of the ultimately unsuccessful Ukrainian War of Independence.
1919–1921	Second Ukrainian–Soviet War	Russian SFSR	Ukrainian People's Republic	Bolshevik victory	Annexation of independent Ukraine into the newly created Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic.
1944–1960	UPA anti-Soviet campaign	Ukrainian Insurgent Army	Soviet Union	Soviet victory	Western Ukraine annexed into the Ukrainian SSR and 570,000+ Ukrainians deported to other Soviet territories.
2014–present	Russo-Ukrainian War 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea War in Donbas (2014–2022) 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine Russo-Ukrainian War (2022–present)	Russian Federation Republic of Belarus^{[citation needed]} DPR Korea^{[citation needed]}	Ukraine	Ongoing	Approximately 20% of Ukraine occupied by Russia as of 2024^[update] 2022 Russian annexation of southern and eastern Ukraine, including Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic

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