The rebels succeeded in taking and destroying the newly built Kodak Fortress, but were defeated by Polish forces under Hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski soon afterward.

[1] Soon after the Kodak fortress was finished, after returning from a raid to the Black Sea against the Ottomans, Cossack leader Ivan Sulyma decided to rebel against the Commonwealth.

[1] He took advantage of the fact that Polish commander, hetman Stanisław Koniecpolski, and much of the Army of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, was away at the Polish-Swedish negotiations (for the Treaty of Stuhmsdorf).

[2] During subsequent negotiations, Sulyma was turned over to the Commonwealth by Cossack elders or starshina (Illyash Karayimovych and Ivan Barabas).

[2][7][1] Four other Cossack leaders were also executed; the only one who was pardoned, due to a request from chancellor Tomasz Zamoyski, was Pavel Mikhnovych.