in order to activate the bolshevik organizations and increase their control over the councils in ukraine, the bolshevik leadership considered it necessary to create an all-ukrainian bolshevik center. for this purpose grigoriy zinoviev, a member of the communist central committee arrived in kiev along with , a russian government commissar from the romanian front. on the kiev military-revolutionary committee handed an ultimatum to the central council of ukraine threatening to destroy kiev or transfer authority over ukraine to the bolsheviks. simultaneously yevgenia bosch managed to direct the 2nd guard corps of the 7th army from the romanian front to kiev in support of . this uprising was preemptively put down with almost no bloodshed due to the efforts of yuriy kapkan, the kiev commandant, and pavlo skoropadsky, the general of the 1st ukrainian corps.