Battle of Yelets

Assault on Yelets
Part of Prince Władysław's March on Moscow
Date 20 July 1618 Location Yelets (now - Lipetsk Oblast, Russia) Result Cossack victory
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Cossacks	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Petro Sahaidachny	Andrey Polyev † Ivan Khrushchev †
Strength
20,000 cossacks	7,000 (1,800 – city garrison)
Casualties and losses
Significantly	20,000 (from the relation of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny) 1,100 killed and captured from the Yelets garrison (Yuriy Chursin's estimate [1]) 640 civilian prisoners of war

The Assault on Yelets (20 July 1618 – ?) was the capture of the Moscow fortress by the Cossacks of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny at the beginning of the campaign against Moscow. The Cossacks destroyed a powerful garrison that could have threatened the rear of the army and took a large ransom from the townspeople.