In order to immediately de-escalate and finally terminate the mounting tensions that threaten to erupt into a civil war in the Ukraine and into global conflagration between NATO and the Russian Federation, it is hereby decreed that:

• 1. Ukraine shall become a Federal Republic known as the Ukrainian Federation (UF);

• 2. The Federal Capitol shall be Kiyiv/Kiev;

• 3. The Federation shall consist of four self-governing democratic republics that respect ethnic and religious rights:

  • i. The mostly Ukrainian-speaking Republic of West Ukraine (Area A) consisting of 15 oblasts plus Kiyiv/Kiev (a total of 16 oblasts) of which the Chernivtsi/Cernâuti Oblast with its large Romanian minority shall become semi-autonomous;
  • ii. The mostly Russian-speaking Republic of East Ukraine (Area B) consisting of 9 oblasts;
  • iii. The Rusyn-speaking Republic of Carpatho-Ukraine (Area D), with a Hungarian Autonomous Region (Area E) that within six months shall have a free and fair plebiscite to determine whether it wishes to unite with Hungary or remain in the Ukrainian Federation, making up a single oblast; and
  • iv. The mostly Russian-speaking de facto Republic of Transnistria (Area F) to be made a single oblast that shall be de jure detatched from the predominantly Romanian-speaking Republic of Moldova (Area G) and be annexed to the Ukrainian Federation.

• 4. In exchange for Transnistria (Area F), the mixed ethnic Budjak Region (Area H) formerly belonging to Bessarabian Moldova, shall be detatched from the Ukraine and become an Autonomous Region of the Republic of Moldova (Area G);

  5. The Republic of Moldova (Area G) may, if it so chooses, by a free and fair plebiscite in the manner conducted by Russia in the Crimea, leave the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), and re-unite with the Republic of Romania of which it was once a constituent part, or otherwise remain independent and a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) or like Georgia become non-aligned with either the European Union (EU) or Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS);

• 6. The Crimean Republic shall, in accordance with the wishes of the vast majority of its population in the free and fair plebiscite held in 2014, remain a part of the Russian Federation;

• 7. It shall be understood and accepted that the interests of the European Union (EU), and simultaneously of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), end at the current Polish-Ukrainian, Slovak-Ukrainian, Hungarian-Ukrainian, Romanian-Ukrainian, Finish-Russian, Estonian-Russian, Latvian-Russian, Lithuanian-Russian, Polish-Russian, Lithuanian-Belarussian and Polish-Belarussian borders;

• 8. It shall be understood that the interests of the Russian Federation end at the current Russian-Ukrainian, Crimean-Ukrainian, Russian-Belarussian, Russian-Lithuanian, Russian-Polish, Russian-Latvian, Russian-Estonian and Russian-Finish borders;

• 9. The 'Provisional Government' shall stand down allowing for free and fair elections which shall be held in each oblast of each of the four constituent republics (Carpatho-Ukraine and Transnistria shall each, respectively, constitute a single oblast) based on proportional representation for the election of the four local governments and for the Federal Parliament and Government in Kiyiv/Kiev;

• 10. All foreign troops, whether EU, NATO, Russian Federation, mercenary or other, shall immediately withdraw from said defined Ukrainian Federation territory.