Dmytro Ivanovych Vyshnevetsky (Ukrainian: Дмитро Іванович Вишневе́цький; Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Вишневе́цкий; Polish: Dymitr Wiśniowiecki) was a Ruthenian magnate of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

[citation needed] In 1556 in service to Ivan the Terrible he helped lead two raids of Ukrainian Cossacks and Russians against the Crimean Tatars around Ochakiv.

With the start of the Livonian War, Ivan turned his attention west and Vyshnevetsky, returned to the Lithuanian service with a great number of his Adyghe warriors.

[citation needed] In 1563 he was involved in Moldavian affairs, perhaps hoping to obtain the throne of Moldavia, but was defeated by the Turks, taken prisoner, and tortured to death in Constantinople.

In the film Propala Hramota (The lost letter, 1972), a fragment of the above-mentioned[clarification needed] old Ukrainian folk song was sung by Ivan Mykolaychuk: Ой як стрілив - царя вцілив, А царицю в потилицю...[4]12th Operational Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine was given his Honorary name to honour his legacy.