[DIPLOMACY] One Last Chance to Avoid Destruction

Our Best and Final Offer to the Separatists

November 1st, 2031

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With the liberation of Crimea, the complete withdrawal of all Russian troops and support, and the military build-up occurring on their doorstep, we are reaching out to the separatists through the peace hotline to notify them that Kyiv is making one last attempt at securing an end to the war without any more violence.

We will present our final peace offer with our best possible terms (in light of the current situation), and this offer is being presented on a "take it or leave it" basis. If no deal is reached here to end the war and reintegrate the separatist pseudo-state, then Kyiv sees no alternative than to end the war through military means. A war that the separatists have absolutely no hope of winning, and a war that no one will shield them from or fight on their behalf.

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Kyiv's terms are the following:

1. There will be an immediate and full ceasefire between government and separatist forces. Observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will monitor this ceasefire as they have done in the past.

2. "The Workers' and Peasants' Armed Forces", the "People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs", and any other paramilitaries, mercenaries, policing forces, or armed groups will surrender in their entirety to the Armed Forces of Ukraine and will relinquish all of their weapons, munitions, vehicles, and other means of waging war in a process of complete disarmament.

3. Safe and effective delivery of humanitarian aid to separatist-controlled territory will be allowed for, and will not be interfered with under pain of criminal prosecution.

4. The executive branch of the government of the "United People's Soviet Republic" and the following persons in particular will be taken into custody by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These persons are: Vadim Zaibert, Vladislav Surkov, Alexander Borodai, and Vladimir Kononov.

5. All records and files in all formats belonging to the separatist government (including the executive and the legislature), the courts, the Communist Party of Donbass, "The Workers' and Peasants' Armed Forces", and the "People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs" will be turned over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, completely intact.

6. The Communist Party of Donbass will be dissolved, banned from re-forming, and the executive body of the party will be taken into custody by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

7. The "United People's Soviet Republic" and all of its institutions will be dissolved. The territory formerly under its control in the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts will be fully reintegrated with Ukraine proper and placed back under the control of the legitimate central and regional governments. New elections to fill the empty seats on the oblast councils which represent said territory will be held within 60 days of this reintegration occurring.

8. All persons held by the "United People's Soviet Republic" as prisoners and hostages will be turned over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. All judgements rendered and sentences handed down by the separatists' courts shall be declared null and void, with the exception being persons legitimately accused of serious crimes such as homicide and sexual assault. Their cases will be investigated and if necessary re-tried in a legitimate Ukrainian court.

9. All known war criminals and those suspected of committing war crimes will be taken into custody by the Armed Forces of Ukraine and brought before a legitimate Ukrainian court. This will also apply to all officially wanted persons who may be residing in separatist-controlled territory.

10. All persons involved in the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014, and its subsequent cover-up, and all evidence of every kind pertaining to these events will be turned over to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

11. The radio stations "United People's Radio" and "Donetsk Radio" will be shut down, and transmission of all state propaganda will cease.

12. The "Novorussian Bitcoin Exchange" will be shut down, as well as other illegitimate financial institutions.

13. All foreign military advisors and trainers, such as those from North Korea, will be taken into custody, declared persona non grata, and will be deported from Ukraine.

14. All illegitimate foreign embassies will be closed. All foreign diplomatic staff at these embassies will be taken into custody, declared persona non grata, and will be deported from Ukraine. This includes the embassies of Vietnam, Nicaragua, Venezuela, North Korea, Russia, "South Ossetia", "Abkhazia", Paraguay, Laos, and Cambodia.

15. Once all the other articles have been met/fulfilled, Ukraine will pursue constitutional reform along the lines of decentralization and devolution of powers to regional governments, which will take into account the over-centralization of the state and the differing needs, cultures, and political interests of Ukraine's various regions. The possibility of granting autonomy to the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea as a model, will be subject to parliamentary debate and a feasibility study. Input from local residents on the future of their regions will be sought after.

16. Once Articles 1 through 14 have been met/fulfilled, a general amnesty will be granted with some exceptions. This offer of amnesty will be extended to foreign nationals who are eligible, with one exception: while they will not be prosecuted, they will be deported from Ukraine and possibly subjected to a lifetime ban on re-entering the country. The exceptions for the general amnesty are:

• Vadim Zaibert, Vladislav Surkov, Alexander Borodai, Vladimir Kononov

• The executive branch of the separatist government.

• The executive body of the Communist Party of Donbass

• War criminals

• Persons listed as wanted by the state

• All persons involved in the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 on 17 July 2014, and its subsequent cover-up

• Persons legitimately accused of serious crimes such as homicide and sexual assault

• The leadership of the "The Workers' and Peasants' Armed Forces" and the "People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs"