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Left-bank Ukraine (Ukrainian : Livoberezhna Ukrayina Russian : Levoberezhnaya Ukraina Polish : Lewobrzeżna Ukraina Ukraine on the left (East) bank of the Dnieper River , comprising the modern-day oblasts of Chernihiv , Poltava and Sumy as well as the eastern parts of the Kiev and Cherkasy .
From the Treaty of Pereyaslav of 1654, this area of Ukraine was under Russian control, later reaffirmed in the Treaty of Andrusiv (1667) and the Eternal Peace Treaty (1686) between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Tsardom of Russia .
Left-bank Ukraine enjoyed a degree of autonomy within the Tsardom (from 1721, Imperial Russia ) as the Cossack Hetmanate , which was slowly withdrawn throughout the eighteenth century[ 1]
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