Siege of Suceava (1653)
Part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
The Suceava Castle in the present-day of the Suceava County in Romania
Date 22 July – 9 October, 1653 Location Suceava, Principality of Moldavia Result Defeat of the Moldavians and Zaporozhian Cossacks
Belligerents
Moldavia Wallachia Transylvania Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth	Moldavia Cossack Hetmanate
Commanders and leaders
Gheorghe Ștefan Matei Basarab John Kemény Henryk Dehoff Jan Kodracki Sebastian Machowski	Vasile Lupu Tymofiy Khmelnytsky † Mykola Fedorovych
Strength
25,000–30,000 Moldavians, Wallachians, Transylvanians, Poles and Lithuanians[1]	1,000 Moldavians[1] 6,000 Zaporozhian Cossacks[1]
Casualties and losses
2,300 killed and wounded[2]	2,000 killed and wounded[2]

The siege of Suceava (Romanian: Asediul Sucevei, Ukrainian: Облога Сучави, Polish: Oblężenie Suczawy; 22 July – 9 October, 1653) was a fought between the Principalities of Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against the Principality of Moldavia and Cossack Hetmanate as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day city of Suceava in Romania, a forces of Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth under the command of Princes Gheorghe Ștefan, Matei Basarab and John Kemény, Colonels Henryk Dehoff, Jan Kodracki and Sebastian Machowski defeated and held besieged the positions of the Moldavians and Zaporozhian Cossacks under the command of Voivode Vasile Lupu, Otaman Tymofiy Khmelnytsky, who was killed in the battle and Mykola Fedorovych in the Suceava Castle.

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