 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Rada yaive nesimba rakashata rakashongedzerwa naro mauto eUkraine Peoples Army uye yakamanikidzwa nehurumende yeKharkov iyo yakagamuchira varume uye zviwanikwa kubva kuRussia Soviet Republic. Somugumisiro, vaBolshevik vakakurumidza kutora Poltava, Aleksandrovsk zvino Zaporizhzhia, uye Yekaterinoslav zvino Dnipro pakasvika January 1918. MuUkraine mose, maBolshevik emunharaunda akaumbawo Odessa neDonetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republics; uye kumaodzanyemba Nestor Makhno akaumba Free Territory nharaunda yeanarchist ipapo akabatanidza mauto ake nemaBolshevik. Yakabetserwa neKiev Arsenal Uprising yapfuura, Varindi Vatsvuku vakapinda muguta guru musi waFebruary 9, 1918. Izvi zvakamanikidza Central Rada kuti iende kuZhytomyr. Panguva iyi, vaRomania vakatora Bessarabia. Zvikamu zvizhinji zveuto reRussia zvakanga zvasara zvakabatana nevaBolshevik kana kuti zvakabatana neUkraine Peoples Army. Kunze kwacho kwakanga kuri Colonel Mikhail Drozdovsky, uyo akafamba neboka rake reWhite Volunteer Army kuyambuka Novorossiya yose kuenda kuRwizi rwaDon, achikunda mauto aMakhno mukuita uku. 