 These claims were uncritically accepted by 19th-century scholars, such as the aforementioned Sergey Solovyov, and are still popular among Ukrainian historians.For example, A. Bulvinsky concluded in his publication that both sides lost 40,000 men in the Battle of Konotop.These claims have been criticized in detail by Western and Russian historians as heavily exaggerated, the criticism has been supported by the Polish expert Piotr Kroll.