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Russo-Polish War

Territorial gains · Truce of Andrusovo

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1654–1667

This prolonged war extended across the lands of present-day Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania. The Andrusovo agreement was a compromise between exhausted belligerents and divided the Cossack territories along the Dnieper without their representatives participating independently in the negotiations.

Period
1654–1667
Belligerents
The Russian state and its Cossack allies — the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Cossack alliances and coalitions changed
Outcome
Smolensk and Left-Bank Ukraine were secured for Moscow; Kyiv was initially transferred for a limited period
Settlement
Truce of Andrusovo, 1667; further confirmation in the Eternal Peace of 1686

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