Upon his recovery on December 30, 1917 from the Simferopol City hospital Shchors was released from the military service due to health problems and at the beginning of 1918 he arrived back to his home village of Snovsk. Accidentally, since January 1918 the government of the Soviet Russia started military aggression against the Ukrainian People's Republic accusing the latter in sabotaging the frontlines with the Russian Imperial Army and impeding military maneuvers of the Red Army. In less than three weeks, the Red Guards occupied most of the Left-bank Ukraine. Right before the elections to the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly, the Red Army of Mikhail Muravyov conquered Kiev. The government of Ukraine was appealing to foreign powers to provide military aid and finally finding it in the Central Powers that were eager to cooperate to destroy the Russian Revolution.