The following is a list of major conflicts fought by

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, by Ukrainian people or by regular armies during periods when independent states existed on the modern territory of Ukraine, from the

Kyivan Rus' Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...

times to the present day. It also includes wars fought outside Ukraine by Ukrainian military. The

is considered as the first national Ukrainian state (together with

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and

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), the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (Ruthenia) as its political successor, and after the period of domination by the

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and, after 1791, as the Commonwealth of Poland, was a bi- confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ru ...

the Cossack states (the Cossack Hetmanate and the Zaporozhian Sich). The Ukrainian Cossacks were also related to the

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and the

Crimean Khanate The Crimean Khanate ( crh, , or ), officially the Great Horde and Desht-i Kipchak () and in old European historiography and geography known as Little Tartary ( la, Tartaria Minor), was a Crimean Tatar state existing from 1441 to 1783, the long ...

, 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 The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

and the Austrian Empire. There were several internal armed conflicts between various Ukrainian ideological factions (sometimes with foreign support) in the first half of the 20th century (especially during the 1917–1921

Ukrainian War of Independence The Ukrainian War of Independence was a series of conflicts involving many adversaries that lasted from 1917 to 1921 and resulted in the establishment and development of a Ukrainian republic, most of which was later absorbed into the Soviet U ...

and the 1939–1945

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), but modern Ukrainian militaries (since 1917) have been mostly fighting with armies of neighbouring states, such as the Russian Provisional Government ( Kiev Bolshevik Uprising November 1917), the Russian SFSR (

1917–1921), the Second Polish Republic (

Polish–Ukrainian War The Polish–Ukrainian War, from November 1918 to July 1919, was a conflict between the Second Polish Republic and Ukrainian forces (both the West Ukrainian People's Republic and Ukrainian People's Republic). The conflict had its roots in ethn ...

1918–1919),

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and the

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(

and post-War resistance), and since 2014, the Russian Federation ( Russo-Ukrainian War). :__TOC__ :__TOC__

Kyivan Rus' and the Kingdom of Ruthenia (800s–1349)

This section contains list of wars involving

and its principalities ( Principality of Kyiv, Principality of Chernihiv, Principality of Pereyaslavl, Principality of Volhynia,

Principality of Terebovlia Principality of Terebovlia ( uk, Теребовлянське князівство) was a Kievan Rus principality established as an appanage principality ca 1084 and was given to Vasylko Rostyslavych (his brothers, Volodar Rostyslavych and Ruri ...

Principality of Halych The Principality of Halych ( uk, Галицьке князівство, translit=Halytske kniazivstvo; rus, Галицкое княжество; orv, Галицкоє кънѧжьство; ro, Cnezatul Galiția), or Principality of Halychian Ru ...

Principality of Turov and Pinsk The Principality of Turov, also called Principality of Turov and Pinsk ( be, Турава-Пінскае княства, russian: Турово-Пинское княжество, uk, Турово-Пінське князівство) or Turovian Rus ...

), Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia (Ruthenia) and Ukrainian duchies under Polish and Lithuanian crowns (like Duchy of Kyiv).

Cossack Ukraine (1649–1764)

This section contains list of wars involving Zaporozhian Cossacks (including

Danubian Sich The Danubian Sich ( uk, Задунайська Сiч, translit=Zadunaiska Sich) was an organization of the part of former Zaporozhian Cossacks who settled in the territory of the Ottoman Empire (the Danube Delta, hence the name) after their pre ...

) and Cossack Hetmanate (both of right-bank and left-bank).

Uprisings

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 ( Ukrainian People's Republic,

Ukrainian State The Ukrainian State ( uk, Українська Держава, translit=Ukrainska Derzhava), sometimes also called the Second Hetmanate ( uk, Другий Гетьманат, translit=Druhyi Hetmanat, link=no), was an anti-Bolshevik government ...

Western Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (WUPR) or West Ukrainian National Republic (WUNR), known for part of its existence as the Western Oblast of the Ukrainian People's Republic, was a short-lived polity that controlled most of Eastern Gali ...

, Hutsul Republic, Komancza Republic) and other Ukrainian anti-bolshevik state formations (

Kuban People's Republic The Kuban People's Republic (KPR), or Kuban National Republic (KNR), (russian: Кубанская Народная Республика, Kubanskaya Narodnaya Respublika; uk, Кубанська Народна Республiка, Kubanska Narodn ...

, Makhnovshchina, Ukrainian Republic of the Far East).

Interwar period (1922–1938)

In 1922, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was incorporated into the

. No 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. The western areas of Ukraine (including most of the former

West Ukrainian People's Republic The West Ukrainian People's Republic (WUPR) or West Ukrainian National Republic (WUNR), known for part of its existence as the Western Oblast of the Ukrainian People's Republic, was a short-lived polity that controlled most of Eastern Gali ...

's claimed territories) 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.

21st century

Peacekeeping missions

Completed

Current

Notes

References

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. {{Europe topic, List of wars involving, title=Lists of wars involving European countries *

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