Throughout the Central European history, the Polish forces entered the city of Kiev twice:
- Polish capture of Kiev (1018), during the Boleslaus' Kiev Expedition in favour of Sviatopolk I of Kiev
- Polish capture of Kiev (1920), during the Kiev Offensive, a part of the Polish-Bolshevik War
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