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Khmelnytsky declares in February 1649, during negotiations …

Years: 1649 - 1649
February

Khmelnytsky declares in February 1649, during negotiations with a Polish delegation headed by senator Adam Kysil in Pereiaslav, that he is "the sole autocrat of Rus" and that he has "enough power in Ukraine, Podolia, and Volhynia... in his land and principality stretching as far as Lviv, Chełm, and Halych".

It becomes clear to the Polish envoys that Khmelnytsky has positioned himself no longer as simply a leader of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, but that of an independent state and states his claims to the heritage of the Rus'.