The Trypillian organization of socialist-revolutionaries had a great influence on the outskirts of Trypillia, Chernyakhiv, Hermanivka and Obukhiv.

At that time, Terpylo and his comrades were laying the network of the future insurgent movement: the structure of the army, the weapons, the places of assembly and everything else that is included in the concept of mobilization readiness.

In November 1918, he created a three-thousand-strong rebel division, which together with the troops of Petliura and the Sich Riflemen, occupied Kyiv in December 1918.

In Trypillia, at the peasant Cossack congress, Terpylo stated that his aspirations were at odds with the Directory's policy and he was confronting it.

After Trotsky ordered the reorganization of Green units along the undemocratic structure of the Red Army, Terpylo turned against them too.

In April 1919, relying on the support of the population, Terpylo began a fight against the Bolshevik occupying power, which in March declared the Green movement outlawed.

By May 14–16, Terpylo was expelled from the area, and his army dispersed – reduced to two thousand, and broken up into small detachments.

[3] At the end of May 1919, the Council of People's Commissars of Ukraine announced a reward for Terpylo's head, dead or alive, in the amount of 50 thousand rubles.

At the beginning of June 1919, Green moved to the left bank of the Dnieper, where they fought a guerilla war against the Bolsheviks.

On September 17, 1919, Terpylo arrived at Kamianets-Podilskyi with one of the detachments, he personally met with Symon Petliura.

Throughout the autumn, the Terpylo fought with the Whites, leading a large guerrilla army that numbered up to 30,000 soldiers.

The area of activity of the guerrilla green detachments was the Chyhyryn, Cherkasy, Kaniv and Zvenigorod counties.