Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Majalisar Regency ta nemi shiga tattaunawar da gwamnatin Bolshevik yayin tafiye-tafiye zuwa Berlin da Vienna a farkon 1918 amma ta sami alkawarin Chancellor na Jamus Georg von Hertling ne kawai don shigar da gwamnatin Poland a matsayin mai ba da shawara. Wannan, duk da haka, wakilan Bolshevik sun ƙi, waɗanda suka ƙi gwamnatin Poland duk wata doka. Wakilin Jamus Max Hoffmann ya bayyana imanin cewa "Ni a koyaushe ina ganin Poland mai zaman kanta ta zama utopia, kuma ba ni da wata shakka game da goyon baya ga da'awar Ukraine". Lokacin da Yarjejeniyar Brest-Litovsk, da aka sanya hannu a ranar 9 ga Fabrairu, ta ba da lardin Chełm <unk> wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na Congress Poland har zuwa 1913 <unk> zuwa sabuwar jihar Ukraine, mutane da yawa a Poland sun ɗauki wannan a matsayin "Raba na huɗu na Poland", wanda ya haifar da "aiki na siyasa" a Warsaw a ranar 14 ga Fabrairu da kuma murabus na gwamnatin Jan Kucharzewski daga baya a wannan watan. Sassan rundunar taimakon Poland karkashin Józef Haller sun yi zanga-zanga ta hanyar karya layin gaba na Austro-Rasha zuwa Ukraine, inda suka haɗu da rukunin Poland waɗanda suka bar sojojin Tsarist. Bayan mummunar yaƙi da sojojin Jamus
a Kaniów a watan Mayu, an tsare ragowar, kodayake Haller ya yi nasarar tserewa zuwa Moscow.