Battle of Shepelevichy

Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Szepielewicze
partof= Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)
date=August 24-25 1654
place=Shepelevichy, present-day Belarus
result=Russian victory
combatant1=Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
combatant2=Russian Tsardom
commander1=Janusz Radziwiłł
commander2=Aleksey Trubetskoy
strength1=7,000Fact|date=April 2008
strength2=40,000-80,000Fact|date=April 2008
casualties1=
casualties2=

The Battle of Shepelevichy (Szepielewicze) on 24 August 1654 was one of the first battles of the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667); it ended with a Russian victory. A small Polish-Lithuanian force of about 7,000 under Great Lithuanian Hetman Janusz Radziwiłł tried to stop a numerically superior Russian force (of 40,000-80,000Fact|date=April 2008) under knyaz Aleksey Trubetskoy near Shepelevichy. Radziwiłl had previously stopped a similar Russian incursion at Shklow, but this time the even larger Russian army managed to outflank him and defeat his forces; on the 25 August the retreating Polish army was defeated and its artillery captured by the Russians.