 On July 9, a meeting of the command staff on the Belash report decided to establish a Commission to investigate anti-Makhnovist affairs (with the functions of fighting Soviet, white and Petliura agents and troops in the Makhnovsky districts), but rejected his proposal to appeal to the Ukrainian government to conclude a military alliance against Pyotr Wrangel.After Makhno was seriously wounded on August 29 and temporarily withdrew from the direct command of the RIAU, Belash’s influence increased, he insisted more and more insistently on directly joining the struggle against Wrangel and intensifying anarchist-communist propaganda among the peasantry.On September 27-29, Belash, contrary to the opinion of some other leaders of the movement, achieved the decision of the majority of the PSA and the army headquarters on the cessation of hostilities against the Bolsheviks and the conclusion of an alliance with them.