The Batoh (Batih) massacre was a mass execution of Polish captives after the Battle of Batih on 3–4 June 1652 near Ladyzhyn. It was carried out by Ukrainian Cossacks under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky.
The massacre of Polish captives by the Cossacks after the battle of Batoh (Batih) in 1652
The Battle of Batih was fought between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as a part of the Khmelnytsky Uprising. Near the site of the present-day village of Chetvertynivka in Ukraine, a forces of the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars under the command of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Otaman Tymofiy Khmelnytsky and Colonel Ivan Bohun attacked and completely defeated the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth’s forces under the command of Hetman Marcin Kalinowski, Noblemans Marek Sobieski and Zygmunt Przyjemski, all of them were killed in the battle. In the aftermath of the battle, the Polish–Lithuanian soldiers taken prisoner were brutally slain by the Zaporozhian Cossacks and Crimean Tatars in the Batih massacre in 3–4 June 1652 as a revenge for the Battle of Berestechko in 28 June — 10 July, 1651.
Massacre of the Polish–Lithuanian prisoners by the Zaporozhian Cossacks after the Battle of Batih. Painting by Hiob Ludolf in 1713