Wutar Moscow ta faru ne a lokacin da sojojin Turkiyya na Crimean da Ottoman (8,000 Crimean Tatars, 33,000 Turkawa da ba bisa ka'ida ba da kuma 7,000 janissaries ) karkashin jagorancin khan na Crimea Devlet I Giray, suka keta shingen tsaro na Serpukhov a kan kogin Oka, suka haye kogin Ugra, kuma ya zagaye gefen rundunar sojojin Rasha 6,000.Sojojin na Rasha sun murkushe sojojin Crimea da Turkiyya.Ba tare da sojojin da za su dakatar da mamayewa ba, sojojin Rasha sun koma Moscow.Mutanen karkarar Rasha ma sun gudu zuwa babban birnin kasar.Bayan fatattakar sojojin Rasha, dakarun Crimean-Turkiyya sun kewaye birnin Moscow, domin a cikin 1556 da 1558 Muscovy, ya karya rantsuwar da aka yi wa daular Giray, ya kai hari ga yankunan Crimean Khanate - Sojojin Moscow sun mamaye Crimea kuma sun kona kauyuka da garuruwa. a Yammaci da Gabashin Crimea, tare da kama ko kashe Tatar na Crimea da yawa.Dakarun Tatar na Crimea da Dakarun Ottoman sun banka wuta a unguwannin bayan gari a ranar 24 ga watan Mayu kuma wata iska kwatsam ta hura wutar cikin birnin Moscow kuma birnin ya tashi cikin tashin hankali.A cewar Heinrich von Staden, Bajamushe da ke hidimar Ivan the Terrible (ya yi iƙirarin cewa shi memba ne na Oprichnina),” birnin, fadar, fadar Oprichnina, da kewayen sun kone gaba ɗaya cikin sa’o’i shida.