The Polish-Russian War Hostile_encounter of 1792 ( also , War of the Second Partition , and in Polish sources , War in Defence of the Constitution ( ) ) was fought Hostile_encounter between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth on one side , and the Targowica Confederation ( conservative nobility of the Commonwealth opposed to the new Constitution of 3 May 1791 ) and the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great on the other .

The war ended Process_end when the Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski decided Deciding to seek a diplomatic solution , asked Request for a ceasefire with the Russians and joined Becoming_a_member the Targowica Confederation , as demanded Request by the Russian Empire .