The Lithuanians had allied themselves with Hacı I Giray, founder of the Crimean Khanate.

However, in the 1480s his son Meñli I Giray, who had come to power with the help of the Ottoman Empire, has allied himself with the Grand Duchy of Moscow, which has long been an enemy of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Lithuanians had then allied with the Golden Horde and its remnant Great Horde which were enemies of the Crimean Khanate.

During the Muscovite–Lithuanian War of 1503, the Crimean Tatar armies had pillaged the grand duchy's southern towns of Slutsk, Kletsk, and Nyasvizh and even threatened the capital city of Vilnius.

Alexander Jagiellon, Grand Duke of Lithuania, had then ordered the construction of a defensive wall around his capital; it will be completed in 1522.

In August 1505, Meñli I Giray sends his eldest son to plunder the territories of Minsk, …