Ka cika wannan jumlar: A shekara ta 1655, Karl X Gustav na Sweden ya mamaye kuma ya mallaki yammacin Poland-Lithuania, rabin gabashin da Rasha ta riga ta mallaka. Saurin ci gaban Sweden ya zama sananne a Poland a matsayin
Ruwan Tsufana na Sweden. Grand Duchy na Lithuania ya zama mai mulkin Sweden, sojojin Poland da Lithuania sun mika wuya kuma sarki John II Casimir Vasa na Poland ya gudu zuwa Habsburgs. Frederick William, Elector na Brandenburg da Duke na Prussia da farko sun goyi bayan dukiya a cikin Royal Prussia, amma sun haɗu da Sweden don karɓar Duchy na Prussia a matsayin mai mulkin Sweden. Yin amfani da raunin ra'ayoyin addini na Roman Katolika a ƙarƙashin aikin Furotesta da kuma shirya shugabannin soja na Poland da Lithuania a cikin Tyszowce Confederation, John II Casimir Vasa ya sami damar sake samun ƙasa a 1656. Rasha ta yi amfani da koma bayan Sweden, ta ayyana yaƙi da Sweden kuma ta tura Lithuania da Livonia na Sweden.