Assalut on Yelets

Assalut of Yelets
	Part of Prince Władysław's March on Moscow
Date	20 July 1618
Location	Yelets (now - Lipetsk Oblast, Russia)
Result	Cossack victory
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Cossacks	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Petro Sahaidachny	Andrey Polyev †; Ivan Khrushchev †;
Strength
20,000 cossacks	7,000; (1,800 - city garrison)
Casualties and losses
Significantly	20,000 (from the relation of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny); 1,100 killed and captured from the Yelets garrison (Yuriy Chursin's estimate ); 640 civilian prisoners of war

The Assalut of Yelets (20 July 1618 – ?) was the capture of the Moscow fortress by the Cossacks of Hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny at the beginning of the campaign against Moscow. The Cossacks destroyed a powerful garrison that could have threatened the rear of the army and took a large ransom from the townspeople.

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