 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 .