Following the discussion between Bruno and the rest of the German High Command. A correspondence was made between the Kaiser and the Tsar. Where the German Reich presented an unexpected offer to send rifles, munitions, and artillery to the Russian Empire and its forces. One that the Tsar was quick to accept as a token of friendship.
After all, the war was not going as well for him as he had wanted the rest of the world to believe. In the months since Mukden, the Bolsheviks had grown in numbers, from initially a few thousand rioters to tens of thousands of revolutionaries.
With the disaster at Mukden, causing the loss of roughly 300,000 Russian soldiers. The remaining 400,000 or so soldiers who had been stationed in the east were immediately transferred west for the purpose of combating the Bolshevik revolution.