On 15 February 1921, the Red Army launched a military operation to sovietize the Georgian Democratic Republic.

After capturing Artvin and Ardahan, the claims of the Turkish side seemed to have run out and they offered to help Georgia in the fight against the Red Army.

On 7 March, they reached the verbal agreement with the Turkish Colonel Kiazim Bey to allow his army into Batumi, while leaving the Menshevik government of Georgia in control of civil administration in the area.

As France and the Great Britain were unwilling to intervene and the agreement with Turks collapsed, Georgia came under the threat of permanently losing Batumi.

According to the decision of the founding assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, the government decided to go into exile and it did not recognize the occupation of the country as legal.

The local communists were freed from jail by the Menshevik government and the Red Army was allowed to enter the district.

[9] The Soviet invasion of Georgia was coming to an end, and a small number of Georgian units was stationed in Batumi district and on the Javakheti line.

[6] The Bolsheviks approached Giorgi Mazniashvili, the general of Georgian Democratic Republic, to retake Batumi.