<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic">Russia</a> signs the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk_(Russia–Central_Powers)" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russia–Central Powers)">Treaty of Brest-Litovsk</a>, agreeing to withdraw from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War I">World War I</a>, and conceding German control of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_States" id="mwgw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Baltic States">Baltic States</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus" id="mwhA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Belarus">Belarus</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine" id="mwhQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>. It also conceded Turkish control of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardahan" id="mwhg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ardahan">Ardahan</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kars" id="mwhw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kars">Kars</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batumi" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Batumi">Batumi</a>.