The Battle of Yakimovichi was fought on 25 May 1655 during the Khmelnytsky Uprising when a Polish-Lithuanian mercenary company overwhelmed a Cossack caravan as it traveled through Belarus.
On the same night as the Battle of Bereznyaki, Jerzy Wisniewski and his mercenary band fell upon another Cossack caravan as its traveled on the road from Slutsk to Loyew. This time, the Cossacks circled their wagons and formed a defensive camp, but the Cossacks charged their position in the face of gunfire, entered the wagon circle from the rear, and slaughtered the Cossacks, who were prevented from escaping by their own barricades. The Ukrainians were slain to a man, and the Poles plundered their caravan and used the proceeds to fund Wisniewski's guerrilla war against the Cossacks and Sweden.
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