Legal way to set-up a withdrawal territory

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Is this legal?

Say Germany has inf and tanks in bulgaria. Italy controls ukraine.  Ukraine is empty at this time.  There are Russian troops in eastern poland.

Can Germany declare a tank to ‘blitz’ thru ukraine to set-up a possible place to withdraw when declaring combat from bulgaria to eastern poland?

Does the answer change if Ukraine was under russia control (still empty)?

[Krieghund]

Yes, it’s legal either way.  Though technically it’s not a blitz in the first case, but rather a simple two-space movement.

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Thank you for the reply.  We have always been playing this way, so it was nice to confirm that it was the right way to handle withdrawals.