List of wars involving Ukraine


The following is a list of major conflicts fought by Ukraine, by Ukrainian people or by regular armies during periods when independent states existed on the modern territory of Ukraine, from the Kievan Rus' times to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Ukraine by Ukrainian military.
Kievan Rus' is considered the first Ukrainian state, the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia its political successor, and after the period of domination by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth the Cossack states. The Ukrainian Cossacks were also related to the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate, having many conflicts with them. By the late 18th century, Ukraine didn't have independent states anymore, because it was ruled by the more powerful states of the time, namely the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire. There were several internal armed conflicts between various Ukrainian ideological factions in the first half of the 20th century, but modern Ukrainian militaries have been mostly fighting with armies of neighbouring states, such as the Russian Provisional Government, the Russian SFSR, the Second Polish Republic, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and since 2014, the Russian Federation.

Kievan Rus' (800s–1240)

Kingdom of Ruthenia and other Rus' principalities (1240–1500)

Following the end of Kievan Rus' in 1240, it split into many Rus' principalities. The Principality, later Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia would control most of the territory of modern Ukraine for a century, after which the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Crown of the Kingdom of Poland would dominate the region.
DateConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
1248–1455Three raids on Yotvingians Bolesław V the Chaste Siemowit I of Masovia Kingdom of Galicia–VolhyniaYotvingiansBolesław V the Chaste's victory
1252–1254Kuremsa raid on South Volyn Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Golden HordeVictory
1280War between Leszek II the Black and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
 Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Leszek II the BlackDefeat
1323Polish-Hungarian raid on Ruthenia Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia Kingdom of Poland Kingdom of HungaryDefeat
1340–1392Galicia–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'
1362/1363Battle of Blue Waters Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Principality of Kyiv		Golden HordeVictory
1389–1392Lithuanian Civil War Teutonic Knights
Samogitia
Rus' principalities		 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Kingdom of Poland		Ostrów Agreement
1409–1411
  • 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 OrderVictory
    1431–1435Lithuanian Civil War Grand Duchy of Rus'
    Teutonic Knights
    Livonian Order
    Golden Horde
    Principality of Moldavia    		 Grand Duchy of Lithuania
    Kingdom of Poland
    Hussites    		Defeat

    Cossack Ukraine (1500–1764)

    This section contains list of wars involving Zaporozhian Cossacks and Cossack Hetmanate.

    Uprisings

    DateConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
    1591–1593Kosiński uprisingZaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthDefeat
    1594–1596Nalyvaiko UprisingZaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthDefeat
    1625Zhmaylo UprisingZaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthTreaty of Kurukove
    1630Fedorovych Uprising
    		Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthRenewed agreement
    1635Sulyma Uprising
  • Capture of Kodak
    		• Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthDefeat, despite Kodak Fortress was destroyed
    1637Pavlyuk Uprising
  • Battle of Kumeyki
    		• Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthDefeat
    1638Ostryanyn Uprising
  • Battle of Zhovnyn
  • Siege of the Starzec River
    		• Zaporozhian Cossacks Polish–Lithuanian CommonwealthDefeat
    1648–1657
  • 1651
    		• Khmelnytsky Uprising
  • Battle of Berestechko
    		• Zaporozhian Cossacks
    Crimean Khanate

    Cossack naval campaigns

    Other conflicts

    Under Austrian and Russian empires

    War of independence (1917–1921)

    This section contains list of wars involving different Ukrainian states de facto existed between 1917 and 1922 and other Ukrainian anti-bolshevik state formations.
    DateConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
    1917–1921

    Interwar period (1922–1938)

    In 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was incorporated into the Soviet Union. No major armed conflicts on Soviet Ukrainian territory would take place until 1939, although Ukrainian 'national units' would be used as national military formations of the Red Army until 1934 and, as such, fight in Soviet armed conflicts elsewhere in the world. Also, as a response to the collectivization, various peasant rebellions took place in 1929-1933 across the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, which were suppressed by the Soviet authorities. The western areas of Ukraine that were annexed by the Second Polish Republic similarly saw no fighting in the interwar period until 1939, although some small and brief armed conflicts did occur elsewhere in Poland in this period.

    World War II (1939–1945)

    This section contains only military activity of non-Soviet and non-Nazi Ukrainian organizations.
    DateConflictCombatant 1Combatant 2Result
    1939Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-UkraineCarpatho-Ukraine

    21st century

    Peacekeeping missions

    Completed

    Withdrawn