Imperial Campaign of Rus (Premysloides Dynasty)

Background
After "Dark Age" (1348-1358) and victorious "Invasion of Baltic" (1367-1368), Emperor Arcadius II summoned imperial council and his allies. Empire still laid in ruins, many cities destroyed, many farms and pastures ruined, mines abandoned.

Rulers of Pskov Republic and Novgorod Republic proposed union and integration of their lands in to Roman Empire, in exchange for protection and full trade connection with Constantinople and Imperial provinces. However, there were large vasts of areas in Eastern Europe under control of various hostile parties.