Battle of Kaniv (1662)

Battle of Kaniv
Part of Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
DateJuly 26, 1662
Location
Result Russian victory
Territorial
changes
Left-bank Ukraine is definitively assigned to the Russians
Belligerents
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
border=no Cossack hetmanate
Crimean Khanate
Russia
Commanders and leaders
border=no Yuri Khmelnitsky Grigory Romodanovsky
border=no Yakim Somko [ru]
Strength
20,000 28,000
Casualties and losses
6,000 Cossacks
2,000 Polish soldiers
Total: 8,000 dead and 74 captured[1]
117 banners
200–300 soldiers[2]

Battle of Kaniv (Russian: Каневское сражение, romanizedKanevskoe srazhenie), was a battle during the summer campaign in the left-bank of Ukraine of Yuri Khmelnitsky, between the Cossack-Polish troops and the Russian-Cossack army led by Yakim Somko and Grigory Romodanovsky. The battle ended with a crushing defeat for Yuri Khmelnitsky and the hetman's retreat to right-bank Ukraine.[3]

It was this defeat that began to raise doubts about Yuri in the Cossacks and as a result, in January 1663, he was overthrown.[3]

  1. ^ Babulin 2015, p. 4.
  2. ^ Babulin 2015, p. 54.
  3. ^ a b Perrie 2006, p. 505.