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Signing the treaty

Austro-Hungarian forces entering Ukraine following the treaty’s signing

After a Bolshevik delegation entered Ukraine & took Kiev last month to support the local soviet, the Central Powers signed a treaty with the Ukrainian People’s Republic on February 9 at Brest-Litovsk, outlining the terms of peace, which included territorial boundaries favoring Germany and Austria-Hungary, abrogation of war reparations for both sides, and allowances for Central Powers supply lines within Ukraine to be secured by German and Austro-Hungarian forces. This latter point has been seen as an occupation; further negotiations with Austria-Hungary regarding a unified Ukrainian province in exchange for grain and other supplies has met with fierce opposition from Polish residents of the empire, who have received no such territory of their own.