**TO THE SUPREME MILITARY COUNCIL**

Source: PSS vol. 50

To M. D. Bonch-Bruevich and Comrade Shutko

The bearer of this letter, Comrade Kirill Roshchupkin, came to me today, 16 (3) March 1918, with credentials from the 8th Army and an account of the state of affairs. In my opinion, it would be necessary to discuss the question: should we not give this comrade papers authorizing him to oversee the withdrawal of Great Russian troops from Ukraine. Discuss this and, if you share my opinion that this must be done, give Roshchupkin such a document.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Written 16 March 1918

First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV

Printed from the manuscript