German infantry advance through a Russian cornfields, Caucasus area, summer 1942 [983 x 1600]

I believe allied Austro-Hungarian troops secured southern Ukraine and reached coast of Black sea in 1918 after Brest-Litovsk, German armies advanced in northern part, Belarus and Baltic coast and there was nothing to stop them if they wanted to continue, its just that they wanted quick peace to allow German to switch troops west and Austrians toward Italian front.

Here is the map of Treaty 1918 showing German/Austrian gains

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ce/a6/1c/cea61cc2f003992c0ec6f7df1e082964.jpg

alied Austro-Hungarian troops in Odessa on the coast of Black sea 1918

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Foto_k.u.k._Feldmarschall_von_Bohm_Ermolli_-_Odessa_-_Ostfront.JPG

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