Proposed Peace Agreement
for Ukraine & Russia

Territory and New Borders

1. The Crimea Peninsula will be internationally recognised as Russian territory.
2. All territory of the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts will be Russian territory.
3. All territory of the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Kharkiv, and Sumy oblasts will be divided at the current lines of conflict.
4. The cities of Zaporizhzhia, Nikopol, Kherson, Poltava, Kharkiv, and Sumy will be Ukrainian territory.
5. All territory generally northeast of the Dnieper River, including the Poltava and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts, and including the cities of Poltava, Kharkiv, and Sumy, will be Ukrainian territory.
6. All territory generally northwest of the Dnieper River, including the cities of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, Kamianske, Kremenchuk, Kyiv, Nikopol, and Kherson, will be Ukrainian territory.
7. All territory generally west of Kherson, including Mykolaiv and Odesa, will be Ukrainian territory.
8. Russia agrees to the new boundaries and agrees to not move further towards Odesa or Kharkiv.

Reparations

• Each government will be responsible for repairing war damages in their governing territory.
• All frozen or confiscated Russian assets (sovereign and private foreign exchange reserves) must be returned, though without required interest.
  – Russia agrees to use the ~$300 billion of frozen Russian assets (sovereign and private funds) for reconstruction throughout Ukraine, but ~$100 billion of this will be used for reconstruction in war-damaged Russian-held territories.

Military Limitations

1. Ukraine and Russia agree to be non-hostile and accepting of the new borders. Ukraine guarantees no bombing or attacks on Russian territory from Ukrainian territory; and Russia guarantees no bombing or attacks on Ukrainian territory. Ukraine agrees to be non-hostile and accepting of the new borders.
2. Ukraine will have a 'limited armed neutrality' – with the right to possess conventional military forces and equipment to properly defend itself. But inside Ukraine there cannot be foreign troops, foreign bases or foreign military exercises, and there will be an agreed limit on purchased and donated arms and military aid from other countries. In addition, Ukraine agrees to ongoing international inspections to reassure there are no violations to these military limits, and reassure that no weapons of mass destruction are present or developed on Ukrainian soil.
3. Ukraine can receive security-defense agreements from other countries. Ukraine can have defensive military systems and, if attacked, Ukraine can receive defense assistance from other countries. But Ukraine's offensive military capacities cannot increase, and Ukraine cannot build or receive weapons [beyond the agreed limits] that could be used for military offense.
4. Ukraine agrees to not have any over-100km long-range missiles, not to have any NATO bases nor any nuclear weapons on its territory, and not to have more than 200,000 military troops.
5. Any drone or small weapons attacks, or any non-government militias attacks, upon either Russian or Ukrainian territory will be treated by both governments as a rogue, criminal, outlawed and punished offense. Ukraine will not be allowed to assist or tolerate any private-party militias intent on harming Russian people or Russian property.
   
   
6. Establishing a demilitarized buffer zone:
   Create a 400km neutral-military buffer zone, with half of this in Ukraine and half in Russia. This can be difficult along the whole border, but it is needed for mutual security, and the requirements are only that no heavy weapons, missiles, or military battalions are allowed in this buffer zone. The oblasts of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, and Dnipropetrovsk, should be in the buffer zone.
7. Ukraine cannot have any large military equipment, heavy weapons, missiles or military bases within 200km of Russian controlled territory. And Russia cannot have any large military equipment, heavy weapons, missiles or military bases within 200km of Ukrainian controlled territory. This will be a demilitarized buffer zone between Ukraine and Russia, and the general security attitude in this zone is to promote peace and trust between the two neighbors. After the Ukrainian and Russian militaries have withdrawn their equipment, weapons and troops, then a UN Peacekeeping Force will regularly monitor this demilitarized area.

Ensuring Ukraine is non-hostile

Preface: Russia's reason (from their view) for launching military operations in Ukraine was due to the Ukraine government's evident hostility towards Russia and ethnic-Russian people living in Ukraine; especially fueled by US-backed ethnic-Ukrainian nationalist groups seeking to eliminate Russian language and cultural traditions from eastern and southern Ukraine. After an illegal overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014 by US and European-backed political parties, in which the elected Russian-friendly national government was forcibly replaced by an ethnic-nationalist-aligned government. This new ethnic-nationalist government passed laws against the equal rights & freedoms of ethnic-Russians and Russian-speakers, and it acquired support from US and European governments to vastly increase its military army and offensive weapons. This expanded military force then began preparations for invading the Russian-friendly regions of Crimea and the Eastern Donbas of Ukraine.

Agreements to ensure Ukraine is non-hostile

1. Russia guarantees peaceful relations with Ukraine as an independent sovereign nation. But peace is conditional on Ukraine being non-hostile, non-threatening to Russia, and conditional on Ukraine treating Russian-related and Russian-speaking persons with the same equal rights and freedoms as is granted to its majority of citizens. The same principles will apply to Russian governments in relation to all of its residents.
2. Ukraine must be a militarily-neutral nation, not militarily-aligned with NATO or any large military bloc, not nuclear, not hostile, and not engaged in any joint-national military operations nor host to any joint-national military bases or military stockpiles.
3. Ukraine will agree to a defined limit on all heavy military equipment, weapons and missiles held in its territory, and its military and equipment should only be for defensive purposes.
4. Ukraine can make defense security agreements with other countries to bolster its security from hostile foreign aggression, though Ukraine must be committed to peaceful diplomatic negotiations as the foremost and primary means to solving grievances or conflict.
5. Both Ukraine and Russia will take continued steps toward building long-term peaceful, friendly, trustworthy, and fair economic relations. and Ukraine is free to join the European Union and any other trade agreements.
6. The Ukrainian government and military cannot be led by ethnic-nationalist groups that are hostile to Russia or to Russian people, and Ukraine must ensure equal and fair civil rights and freedoms for all ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.
7. Russia and the newly annexed Russian areas will be committed to a peaceful, friendly, collaborative, and mutually benefiting relation with Ukraine, including fair trade and prosperous business ventures.

A New US-NATO-EU–RUSSIA
Security Framework

1. This new Security Agreement between Russia and Nato-Western Powers will aim at avoiding future conflicts in the region, especially nuclear war, while increasing cooperation in areas of joint interest and concern.
2. Both Russia and NATO will agree to non-interventionist and non-expansionist peaceful relations.
3. Western alliances must remove all economic sanctions on Russia, including returning its citizen's foreign assets, and including removing any oil or gas embargo imposed on Russia.

Democratic Elections

1. New elections will be planned for Ukraine and the Russian annexed territories.
2. Dates will be planned for electing a new Ukraine government and for electing regional governments in all of the Russian annexed territories.
3. All elections will be monitored by impartial UN observers to ensure that all of these elections are democratically fair, as well as uncorrupted by corporate and private money, or by autocratic influences.
   
   

Fair Civil Rights and Freedoms

1. Fair civil rights and freedoms for both Ukraine and the Russian annexed regions, for both ethnic-Ukrainians and ethnic-Russians, and any another ethnic group, religious group, social group, or political group. By constitutional law, all minority groups must be protected and have equal civil rights and freedoms.
2. Ukraine must maintain equal civil laws and freedoms for all residents and travelers, without any discriminations and with freedom of each person's religion, culture, traditions, and civil lifestyles. This means the government will have abolish its laws discriminating against Russian people, culture, traditions, and language – and this must apply to all people and in both Ukrainian and Russian territory.
   
   

Democratic Regional Governance

1. Regional and city governments within the Russian annexed areas will be democratically decided by the residents.
2. The Russian annexed territories of Ukraine will have maximum regional independence and maximum freedoms, yet necessarily follow the general policies and civil laws of the Russian government, including the necessity for all local governments be responsible, pragmatic, and justly fair to all residents and visitors.
3. Each regional and city government within the Russian annexed territories will have the freedom to decide its local laws, policies, budgets and projects, yet required to be aligned with the general laws and policies of the Russian Federation.
4. All residents in the Russian annexed territories will be guaranteed a minimum living income, with guaranteed employment and guaranteed housing, along with the freedom to own property and start private or worker-owned businesses.

Safe Travel and Trade

1. Both Ukrainian and Russian people should be able to visit and have residence or businesses in any areas of Ukraine and in any of the Russian annexed territories, and be safe from violence and discrimination.
2. Residents in both Ukraine and the Russian annexed territories will be able to move residency, buy and own property, and establish businesses in any of these governed republics.
3. Both Ukrainian and Russian owned businesses should be able to safely travel and move goods through any of these territories.
4. Both Russia and Ukraine must have enforceable and just laws ensuring that all residents and travelers have equal civil rights, without discrimination against ethnic Ukrainian or ethnic Russian, equal rights for all peoples, cultures, religions, and groups, with open easements for travel and trade.