trying to save the situation, skoropadsky began to feverishly look for new allies. on november 14, 1918, the hetmanpectedly for many , issued a letter proclaiming a new course, federation with russia and work to restore the former greatness and strength of the all-russian state. when skoropadsky, at the end of his administration, began to actively contact representatives of the white movement, when, after the kapetsk truce, he spoke about the united mighty russia, he simply tried to rely on some kind of political and military force. it was much closer and more understandable to him, and the russian empires in one form or another, even the republic, she was much more closer and clearer than uh, something incomprehensible. here, what the bolsheviks or someone else built, however, the whites, led by denikin, no longer believed him. and the ukrainian nationalists, led by petlyura, taking advantage of the neutrality of the germans, raised an uprising against the scarabat handful of officers and volunteers from among the kiev youth were the last defenders of the hetman's power from the petliura bands . o