Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A cikin kaka na 1609, Strus ya shiga Siege na Smolensk (1609<unk>11), yana jagorantar rukunin 150 Hussars, 50 Cossacks da 100 infantry. A ranar 4 ga Yuli, 1610, ya yi yaƙi a Yaƙin Klushino
, bayan haka ya ruga tare da Aleksander Zborowski da Mikolaj Scibor Marchocki zuwa Sarki Zygmunt III Waza, suna gabatar masa da tutar da aka kama na abokan gaba (17 ga Yuli). A cikin bazara na 1612, tare da sojoji 1000 da sojan doki 3000, Strus ya haɗu da sojojin Lithuanian Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, wanda aka aiko don ƙarfafa rundunar Commonwealth na Moscow Kremlin.