How did the Treaty of Carlowitz affect the Commonwealth’s lands in Ukraine?

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Map showing Poland's territory in 1634 under the reign of Wladyslaw IV Vasa, shaded in pink and spanning from the Baltic Sea in the north to near Kyiv in the southeast. Major present-day cities such as Warsaw, Krakow, Gdansk, Vilnius, Minsk, Lwow (Lviv), Pinsk, and Kyiv are marked within the territory, with surrounding cities like Moscow, Riga, Vienna, and Budapest shown for reference. — Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Poland's territory in 1634, during the reign of Władysław IV Vasa.

The Treaty of Carlowitz, signed in 1699, allowed the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth to recover territories in Ukraine that had been under Ottoman Empire rule for more than 20 years.12

Specifically, the treaty enabled the Commonwealth to regain Podolia and the portion of Ukraine situated west of the Dnieper River, which the Turks had originally conquered in 1672. While the Commonwealth had previously lost these provinces—along with Bratslav and parts of Kiev—following the Peace of Buczacz, the 1699 settlement marked the restoration of these lands to Polish control.123