| Battle of Kaniv | |||||||||
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| Part of Russo-Polish War (1654-1667) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Flag_of_the_Cossack_Hetmanat.svg){kind=small} Cossack hetmanate&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Flag_of_the_Crimean_Khanate_(15th_century).svg){kind=small} Crimean Khanate |
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| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Yuri Khmelnitsky |
Grigory Romodanovsky Yakim Somko | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 20,000 | 28,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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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, romanized: Kanevskoe srazhenie), was a battle during the summer campaign in the left-wing 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]
- ^ Babulin 2015, p. 4.
- ^ Babulin 2015, p. 54.
- ^ a b Perrie 2006, p. 505.