Cossack raids into Russia

Cossack raids into Russia
	Part of Polish-Russian wars and Crimean-Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe
	; Zaporozhian Cossack by Friedrich Wilhelm von Bergholz
Date	XVI–XVII centuries
Location	Primarily borderlands of Tsardom of Russia
Result	Devastation of the Russian lands; Severe damage to the Russian Tsardom; Some of the raiders settle on the Russian borderland and continue to loot the territories and fight with Russian forces;
Belligerents
Zaporozhian Cossacks; Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Crimean Khanate; Don Cossacks (sometimes)	Tsardom of Russia Sluzhiliye cherkasy; Don Cossacks; Qasim Khanate (1618); ;
Commanders and leaders
Notable commanders: Jerzy Pac; Ostap Dashkevych; Michał Wiśniowiecki; Ataman Sempskoy; Denis Solepsky; Ataman Husak; Senka Kovpak (POW); Semen Lyko; Petro Sahaidachny; Fyodor Borispolets; Mykhailo Doroshenko; Tymofiy Orendarenko; Dorofiy Doroshenko; Fedir Pyrsky †; Taras Fedorovych; Yakiv Ostryanyn; Rotmistr Overkovich †; Hyria Kanevets †;	Notable commanders: Ivan Andreyevich †; Matviy Fedorov; Vlas Yakovlev (POW); Semen Novgorodets (POW); Konstantin Myasnoy; Ivan Khovanskiy; Michael I of Russia; Andrey Polyev †; Ivan Khrushchev †; Nikita Cherkassky (POW); Pyotr Danilov †; Vasily Buturlin ; Grigoriy Volkonskiy (WIA); Afanasiy Gagarin; Grigory Kaidalov; Varfolomey Khitrovo; Fyodor Buturlin; Mikhail Shein ; Yakiv Ostryanyn †;

The Cossack raids into Russia, also referred as the Cherkassian invasions of Russia or Cherkassian raids into Russia, were a series of military expeditions by the Zaporozhian Cossacks into the Russian borderlands and beyond that took place from the end of the 1500s until the mid-1600s.

The raids often took place in a parallel with Cossack regiments joining the Russian service, with the main actions taking place in the end of the 1500s, when the "Cherkassians" were actively attacking Russian stanitsas and other settlements. Sometimes, the Cossacks carried full-scale attacks deep into the Russian territory, as happened during the campaigns of 1618 and 1633-1634 that are believed to have secured the Commonwealth victories in its wars against Muscovy in the mid-1600s. Cossack incursions played a significant role in the history of colonisation of the Wild Fields.