List of wars involving Ukraine
The following is an incomplete list of major wars fought by Ukraine, by Ukrainian people or by regular armies during periods when independent Ukrainian states existed, from antiquity to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Ukraine by Ukrainian military.
The separate section contains list of wars involving Crimean Tatars' states.
The list gives the name, the date, combatants, and the result of these conflicts following this legend:
- Ukrainian victory
- Ukrainian defeat
- Another result (e.g. a treaty or peace without a clear result, status quo ante bellum, result of civil or internal conflict, result unknown or indecisive)
- Ongoing conflict
Kievan Rus[]
This section contains list of wars involving Kievan Rus' and its principalities located on the territory of modern Ukraine (Principality of Kiev, Principality of Chernigov, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Principality of Volhynia, Principality of Terebovlia, Principality of Halych, Principality of Turov and Pinsk), Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia and Ukrainian duchies under Polish and Lithuanian crowns (like Duchy of Kyiv).
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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830s | Paphlagonian expedition of the Rus' | ![]() |
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Unclear |
860 | Rus'–Byzantine War (860) | ![]() |
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Victory |
907 | Rus'–Byzantine War (907) | ![]() |
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Victory |
920–1036 | Rus'-Pechenegs' campaigns | ![]() |
Pechenegs | Different results |
941 | Rus'–Byzantine War (941) | ![]() |
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Defeat |
964–965 | Sviatoslav's campaign against Khazars | ![]() |
Khazar Khaganate | Victory. Destruction of Khazar Khaganate. |
967/968–971 | Sviatoslav's invasion of Bulgaria | ![]() |
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Defeat |
981 | Rus' raid on Czerwień Towns | ![]() |
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Victory |
987 | Rus'–Byzantine War (987) | ![]() |
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Agreement. Baptism of Vladimir and further Christianization of Kievan Rus'. |
1018 | German–Polish War (1002–1018) | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1022 | Yaroslav the Wise's attack on Brest | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1024 | Rus'–Byzantine War (1024) | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1043 | Rus'–Byzantine War (1043) | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1055–1223 | Rus'-Cumans' campaigns | ![]() |
Cumans | Different results |
1069, 1074, 1077 | Bolesław II the Generous's raids on Rus' | ![]() |
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Defeats |
1076 | Bolesław II the Generous's raid on Bohemia | ![]() ![]() |
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Polish victory |
1092 | Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Poland | ![]() |
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Victory |
1101 | Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Poland | ![]() |
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Victory |
1120 | Ruthenian and Cuman raid on Poland | ![]() |
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Victory |
1139–1142 | Fights between Duchy of Masovia and Rus' | ![]() |
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Victory |
1147 | Bolesław IV the Curly's raid on Old Prussians | ![]() ![]() |
Old Prussians | Bolesław IV the Curly's victory |
1187 | Ruthenian raid on Lesser Poland | ![]() |
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Victory |
1188–1189 | Béla III's military campaign against Halych | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1189 | Casimir II the Just's raid on Halych | ![]() ![]() |
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Defeat |
1205 | Roman the Great's raid on Poland | ![]() |
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Defeat. Death of Roman the Great. |
1207 | Leszek I the White's raid on Rus' | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1213–1214, 1219, 1233–1234 | Andrew II's military campaigns against Halych | ![]() |
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Victory. Hungarian retreat. |
1214 | Leszek I the White's raid on Volodymyr-Volynskyi | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1218–1221 | Polish-Hungarian-Ruthenian War | ![]() |
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Victory |
1223–1240 | Mongol invasion of Rus' (see also List of Tatar and Mongol raids against Rus') |
Vladimir-Suzdal![]() ![]() ![]() Smolensk Turov and Pinsk Rostov Chernigov Ryazan Pereyaslavl |
Mongol Empire | Defeat. Principalities of Kievan State becoming vassals of the Mongol Golden Horde. |
1236–1237
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Wars between Konrad I of Masovia and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
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Victory |
1248–1455 | Three raids on Yotvingians | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Yotvingians | Bolesław V the Chaste's victory |
1252–1254 | Kuremsa raid on South Volyn | ![]() |
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Victory |
1280 | War between Leszek II the Black and Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia
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Defeat |
1323 | Polish-Hungarian raid on Ruthenia | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1340–1392 | Galicia–Volhynia Wars | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Expansion of Poland and Lithuania at expense of Rus'. |
1362/1363 | Battle of Blue Waters | ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1389–1392 | Lithuanian Civil War (1389–1392) | ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ostrów Agreement |
1409–1411
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Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War
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Victory |
1431–1435 | Lithuanian Civil War (1431–1435) | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Defeat |
Cossack Ukraine[]
This section contains list of wars involving Zaporozhian Cossacks (including Danubian Sich) and Cossack Hetmanate (both of right-bank and left-bank).
Uprisings[]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1591–1593 | Kosiński Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Defeat |
1594–1596 | Nalyvaiko Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Defeat |
1625 | Zhmaylo Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Treaty of Kurukove |
1630 | Fedorovych Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Renewed agreement |
1635 | Sulyma Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Kodak Fortress destroyed |
1637 | Pavlyuk Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Defeat |
1638 | Ostryanyn Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Defeat |
1648–1657
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Khmelnytsky Uprising
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Emergence of Cossack state |
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Zaporozhian Cossacks | Instead of previous uprisings this one was not against Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, but against actual hetman of Cossack state Ivan Vyhovsky. The uprising was defeated and Russo-Ukrainian war of 1658–1659 began. | |
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1702–1704 | Paliy Uprising | Zaporozhian Cossacks![]() ![]() |
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Uprising was defeated, but Right-bank Ukraine became part of Cossack Hetmanate. |
1734 | Haidamakas | ![]() |
Defeat | |
1750 | Haidamakas | ![]() ![]() |
Defeat | |
1768–1769 | Koliivshchyna | Haidamakas | ![]() ![]() |
Defeat |
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Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1602 | Raid on Kiliya | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Victory |
1606 | Raid on Kiliya and Akkerman | Zaporozhian Cossacks led by | ![]() |
Victory |
1607 | Raid on Ochakiv | Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny | ![]() |
Victory |
1608 | Raid on Perekop | Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny | ![]() |
Victory |
1609 | Raid on Kiliya, Izmayil and Akkerman | Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny | ![]() |
Victory |
1613 | Raid on Northern Turkey | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Victory |
1614 | Raid on Trabzon and Sinop in Northern Turkey | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Victory |
1615 | Raid on Constantinople | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Victory |
1616 | Raid on Kafa in Crimea, Trabzon and Sinop in Northern Turkey | Zaporozhian Cossacks led by Petro Sahaidachny | ![]() ![]() |
Victory |
1617 | Raid on Constantinople | Zaporozhian Cossacks | ![]() |
Victory |
Other conflicts[]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1558–1583 | Livonian War | ![]() ![]() (before 1569 the Polish–Lithuanian union) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Tsardom of Russia Qasim Khanate Kingdom of Livonia |
Victory |
1577 | Ivan Pidkova's Moldavian campaign | ![]() |
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Pidkova became ruler of Moldavia. |
1591–1606 | Long War | ![]()
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Peace of Zsitvatorok |
1620–1621
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Polish–Ottoman War | ![]() ![]() |
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Indecisive. |
1654–67 | Russo-Polish War | ![]() ![]() |
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Treaty of Andrusovo, division of Cossack Hetmanate between Poland and Russia |
1658–1659
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Russo-Ukrainian / Moscovian-Cossack war | ![]() ![]() |
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Pereyaslav Articles |
1650, 1652, 1653 | Bohdan Khmelnytsky's Moldavian campaign | ![]() ![]() |
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Status quo |
1655–1660
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Second Northern War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Indecisive for Ukraine |
1663–1675 | Turkish-Cossack conflict | ![]() |
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Victory |
1666–1671 | Polish–Cossack–Tatar War | ![]() ![]() |
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Start of Polish–Ottoman War |
1672–1676
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Polish–Ottoman War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Ottoman Empire won control over parts of Ukraine |
1676–1681 | Russo-Turkish War | ![]()
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Treaty of Bakhchisarai |
1683–1699
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Polish–Ottoman War
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Decisive Holy League victory. |
1686–1700 | Russo-Turkish War | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Victory |
1700–1721
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Great Northern War
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Defeat |
1710–1711 | Pruth River Campaign | ![]()
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Decisive Ottoman victory. Treaty of Pruth |
1735–1739 | Austro-Russian–Turkish War | ![]() |
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Treaty of Niš, Treaty of Belgrade |
1768–1774 | Russo-Turkish War | ![]()
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Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca |
1775 | the fall of Zaporizhian Sich | ![]() |
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Defeat |
Under Austrian and Russian empires[]
War of independence[]
This section contains list of wars involving different Ukrainian states de facto existed between 1917 and 1922 (Ukrainian People's Republic, Ukrainian State, Western Ukrainian People's Republic, Hutsul Republic, Komancza Republic) and other Ukrainian anti-bolshevik state formations (Kuban People's Republic, Free Territory, Ukrainian Republic of the Far East).
As a part of Soviet Union[]
This section contains list of wars involving also different Soviet republics which were located on the territory of modern Ukraine and were de jure independent (Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets, Ukrainian Soviet Republic, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic, Odessa Soviet Republic, Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic).
World War II[]
This section contains only military activity of non-Soviet and non-Nazi Ukrainian organizations.
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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1939 | Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ukraine | ![]() |
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Defeat |
1941 | World War II — Declaration of Ukrainian Independence, 1941 | ![]() |
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Cessation of OUN and German co-operation, commencement of the purely pro-Ukrainian UPA |
1942–1944 | World War II — Non-Soviet anti-Nazi activity | ![]() ![]() |
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Potsdam Conference |
1942–1947 | World War II — Non-Soviet anti-Polish activity | ![]() ![]() |
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Polish–Soviet border agreement and Vistula Operation |
1942–1950 | World War II — Anti-Soviet activity | ![]() ![]() |
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Cessation of activity |
Wars involving Crimean Tatars' states[]
This section contains wars involving Crimean Khanate and Crimean People's Republic.
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result |
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5 August 1506 | Battle of Kletsk | Crimean Khanate | Grand Duchy of Lithuania | Decisive Lithuanian victory |
April 28, 1512 | Battle of Wisniowiec | Crimean Tatars | Kingdom of Poland
Grand Duchy of Lithuania |
Polish-Lithuanian victory |
27 January 1527 | Battle of Olshanitsa | Grand Duchy of Lithuania | Crimean Khanate | Lithuanian victory |
9–11 May 1583 | Battle of Torches | Ottoman Empire
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Safavid Persia
Georgian irregurals |
Decisive Ottoman victory |
19–20 September 1595 | Battle of Cecora | Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Moldavia |
Polish victory |
27 July – 2 August 1572 | Battle of Molodi | Crimean Khanate | Tsardom of Russia | Decisive Russian victory |
28 January 1606 | Battle of Udycz | Crimean Tatars | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Polish-Lithuanian victory |
9 July 1612 | Battle of Cornul lui Sas | Moldavia
Ottoman Empire Crimean Khanate |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Moldavian victory |
20 June 1624 | Battle of Martynów | Crimean Tatars | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Polish-Lithuanian victory |
30 January 1644 | Battle of Okhmativ | Crimean Tatars | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Polish victory |
28–30 1651 | Battle of Berestechko | Zaporozhian Cossacks
Crimean khanate |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Decisive Polish victory |
August 1656 | Battle of Łowicz | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crimean Khanate |
Sweden | Polish and tatar victory |
17 September – 7 October 1620 | Battle of Cecora | Ottoman Empire Crimean khanate Wallachia Lipka Tatars Transylvania |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Moldavia |
Decisive Ottoman victory |
2 September – 8 October 1621 | Battle of Khotyn | Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate Wallachia Moldavia |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Registered cossacks |
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth victory |
27 September – 2 November 1660 | Battle of Chudnov | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Crimean Khanate |
Tsardom of Russia | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth victory |
6–16 October 1667 | Battle of Podhajce | Crimean Khanate | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Polish-Lithuanian victory |
5 August 1716 | Battle of Petrovaradin | Archduchy of Austria
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Ottoman Empire
Crimean Khanate Kuruc |
Decisive Habsburg victory |
11 June 1764 | Battle of Hodów | Crimean Khanate | Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Polish victory |
16 October 1853 – 30 March 1856 | Crimean war |
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Allied victory |
January 1918 | Bolshevik coup d'état of Crimean People's Republic | ![]() |
Bolsheviks | Bolshevik Victory |
Since 1991[]
Date | Conflict | Combatant 1 | Combatant 2 | Result
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2014–present | Russo-Ukrainian War:
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Ongoing
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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (Current) | |||||
Attack on Snake Island | 24 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
Millerovo air base attack | 25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Inconclusive | |
Northwest offensive | 1 March 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Kherson offensive (Current) | |||||
Battle of Kherson | 24 February – 2 March 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Victory | ||
Battle of Melitopol | 25–26 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
27 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | ||
Battle of Mykolaiv | 26–27 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Siege of Enerhodar | 28 February-4 March 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Zaporizhzhia | 27 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Eastern Ukraine offensive (Current) | |||||
Battle of Okhtyrka | 24 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
First Battle of Sumy | 24–25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Victory | |
Second battle of Sumy | 27 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Battle of Chernihiv | 24–25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Victory | |
Siege of Chernihiv | 24 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Battle of Konotop | 24–26 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Kharkiv | 24 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Battle of Starobilsk | 25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Siege of Mariupol | 25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Kruty skirmishes | 28 February – 1 March 2022 | ![]() |
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Victory | |
Battle of Sievierodonetsk | 2 March 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing | |
Horlivka offensive (Current) | |||||
Kyiv Offensive (Current) | |||||
Battle of Antonov Airport | 24–25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Chernobyl | 24 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Ivankiv | 25 February-5 March 2022 | ![]() |
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Defeat | |
Battle of Vasylkiv | 26 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Victory | |
Battle of Kyiv | 25 February 2022 | ![]() |
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Ongoing |
Peacekeeping missions[]
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Completed[]
Mission | Start-date | End-date | Location | Troops (regular) |
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UNPROFOR | 1992 | 1995 | ![]() |
1303 |
UNMOT | 1994 | 2000 | ![]() |
21 |
UNMIBH | 1995 | 1999 | ![]() |
400 |
UNPREDEP | 1995 | 1999 | ![]() |
1 |
UNTAES | 1996 | 1998 | ![]() |
511 |
MONUA | 1996 | 1999 | ![]() |
216 |
UNMOP | 1996 | 2002 | ![]() ![]() (Prevlaka) |
2 |
MINUGUA | 1997 | 1997 | ![]() |
8 |
1998 | 2001 | ![]() |
23 | |
1999 | 2003 | ![]() |
149 | |
UNOMIG | 1999 | 2005 | ![]() |
530 |
UNIFIL | 2000 | 2006 | ![]() |
650 |
ISAF | 2000 | 2001 | ![]() |
1 |
UNAMSIL | 2001 | 2005 | ![]() |
530 |
UNIKOM | 2003 | 2003 | ![]() |
448 |
UNMEE | 2004 | 2008 | ![]() ![]() |
7 |
MNF-I | 2005 | 2008 | ![]() |
1690 |
2008 | 2009 | ![]() |
37 |
Current[]
Mission | Start-date | Location | Troops (regular) |
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MONUC MONUSCO |
2000 | ![]() |
13 |
UNMIL | 2003 | ![]() |
275 |
UNOCI | 2011 | ![]() |
1303 |
MINUSMA | 2019 | ![]() |
20 |
See also[]
- List of invasions and occupations of Ukraine
- Category:Lists of wars
Notes[]
Sources[]
- Крип'якевич І., Гнатевич Б. та ін. Історія українського війська., Львів, 1992., pp. 193–194.
- Сокульський А.Л. Флот Запорозької Січі в XVI-XVIII ст.: структурна організація, технологія та військове мистецтво. Дис. к.і.н., К., 1999. pp. 113–114.
- Wars involving Ukraine
- Lists of wars by country
- Military history of Ukraine
- Foreign relations of Ukraine
- Ukraine history-related lists