Proposed Peace Agreement
for Ukraine & Russia

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A New US-NATO-EU–RUSSIA
SECURITY FRAMEWORK

– with Security Guarantees for both Russia and Ukraine –

  1. A New Security Agreement between Russia and Nato Western Powers, with guarantees of non-interventionist peaceful relations.
  2. This new European Security Framework involving Russia will aim at avoiding future conflicts in the region, while having more co-operation on areas of joint concern.
  3. Western alliances must remove all economic sanctions on Russia, including returning its citizen's foreign assets, and including no oil or gas embargo imposed on Russia.
  4. Russia will set forth plans of reparations for its army's damages to Ukrainian civilian areas; these could be a combination of direct funds and no-interest loans.
  5. NATO will abide by the 1994 Budapest Memorandum affirming Ukraine as a 'non-nuclear weapons state'.
  6. NATO will agree to the full terms of the Adapted Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (ACFE) agreement of 1999.
  7. NATO must agree to not interfere or attack Transnistria (a breakaway part of Moldova), or any other breakaway regional independence.
  8. NATO will withdraw its forces and weapons from Russia’s borders.
  9. Russia will seek long-term peaceful relations with all NATO countries.
  10. Russia asks for the U.S. and western European powers to change their foreign policies from aggressive expansionism to regionally cooperative relations with Russia and Russian-friendly nations, while Russia maintains its own foreign policies of non-aggression and non-expansionism.
  11. Russia proposes that all nations cooperate sincerely towards establishing a world of Peace and Security, along with shared geopolitical and economic power, and in addition all nations can work together cooperatively in solving urgent global ecological and climate problems.

Ukrainian Non-hostile Sovereignty

  1. Russia guarantees Peaceful Relations with Ukraine as an independent Sovereign Nation.
  2. But this is 'conditional' on Ukraine being non-hostile to Russia, in line Russian President Putin's statement, “The true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia.” Therefore, Ukraine and NATO must guarantee that Ukraine will be non-hostile and non-threatening to Russia as a bordering nation.
  3. In an internationally recognised treaty, Ukraine will be a non-Nato, non-bloc, non-nuclear, non-hostile and militarily-neutral nation state, without any foreign military alliances or joint-military operations, and with no foreign or Nato military bases allowed on its territory. In addition, Ukraine agrees to a defined limit on all heavy weapons and missiles held in its territory.
  4. Ukraine can be guaranteed 'security from invasion' by a combination of regional or European neighbors pledging to protect Ukraine from any unprovoked foreign invasion (that did not first use rigorous diplomatic negotiations to peacefully settle the greivances or conflict).
  5. Ukraine's foreign policies and trade policies must be worked out in Ukrainian-Russian diplomatic negotiations, to ensure that Ukrainian policies are not hostile to Russia and are mutually positive for both Ukraine and Russia, including the building of long-term friendly, trustworthy, and fair economic relations. Though Ukraine is free to join the European Union and any other trade agreements.
  6. The Ukrainian government and the Ukrianian military cannot be led by ethnic-nationalist parties or groups that are hostile to Russia or to Russian people.
  7. Ukraine must ensure equal and fair civil rights & freedoms for all ethnic, cultural, and religious groups.
  8. Ukraine and NATO must agree to the principle of a multi-ethnic Ukrainian identity with a recognized and guaranteed place for ethnic-Russians, Russian language and culture.
  9. Russia and the newly annexed Russian areas would like a peaceful, friendly, collaborative, and mutually benefiting relation with Ukraine, including fair trade and prosperous business ventures.

Peace Guarantees between Ukraine and Russia

  1. Ukraine guarantees no bombing or attacks on Russian territory from Ukrainian territory; and Russia guarantees no bombing or attacks on Ukrainian territory.
  2. Ukraine agrees to not have any Nato long-range missiles or nuclear weapons on its territory.
  3. Ukraine cannot have any heavy weapons or missiles within 200km of Russian controlled territory. This will be a demilitarized buffer zone between Ukraine and Russia, in order to ensure that Russian cities, villages and industries are not attacked by Nato weapons. To ensure this, Russia's newly annexed territory will extend 200km from each major annexed city.
  4. Once this demilitarized zone is established and boundaries secure, the Russian military will gradually withdraw heavy weapons and missiles from the new annexed territories.
  5. UN Peacekeeping Teams will regularly monitor these de-militarizing actions of both Ukraine and Russia.

Territory and Boundaries

  1. The Crimea Peninsula is internationally agreed to be Russian territory and protected by international law.
  2. Russia can offer to withdraw its forces in some areas, in return for Western and Ukrainian agreement to Russia’s most important demands.
  3. Russia will not occupy Kiev or the ethnic-Ukrainian heartlands of western Ukraine.
  4. Russia governs all territory of the Luhansk and Donetz regions, and all territory of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions south of the Dnieper river.
  5. Ukraine governs all territory west of the Kherson region and all territory west of and including the Kharkiv region.
  6. Russia governs territory south of Zaporizhzhia and the Dnieper river, including the southern river port city of Kherson.
  7. Ukraine governs territory north and west of the Dnieper river, including the river port cities of Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and Kremenchuk, and including territory west of Kherson, including Mykolaiv and Odesa.

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.

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.

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.

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.