The Russians enter Poland but do not participate in any major engagements.

They bide their time, as Peter posed as the mediator between the Commonwealth's king and its szlachta.

Crucially, the Russians do not support the Confederates as promised, and instead insist on bringing both sides to the negotiating table.

Saxon forces under the command of Jacob Heinrich von Flemming, enjoying military superiority, advance southeastwards and take Zamość, a victory accomplished less through military tactics than through diplomacy and treachery.