For the sake of France, the Cossacks have been fighting even then, when France itself was already on the brink of civil war due to the complicated struggle for power between Prince Condé and his supporters on one side, and Cardinal Mazarin and Anna of Austria on the other. The situation becomes even more acute when the Vatican intervenes in Paris’s affairs through the papal nuncio Barberini...
But the Thirty Years’ War ends, and with it the French expedition of the Cossacks, the remnants of which Prince Gyaur brings into Ukraine to immediately join the civil war in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.