Battle of Kaniv (1662)
| Battle of Kaniv | |||||||||
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| Part of Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack hetmanate Crimean Khanate |
Russia Cossack hetmanate | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Yuri Khmelnitsky |
Grigory Romodanovsky Yakym Somko | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 20,000 | 10,000 to 28,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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6,000 Cossacks 2,000 Polish soldiers Total: 8,000 dead and 74 captured 117 banners | 200–300 soldiers | ||||||||
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Battle of Kaniv (Russian: Каневское сражение, romanized: Kanevskoe 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. It was this defeat that began to raise doubts about Yuri in the Cossacks and as a result, in January 1663, he was overthrown.