Manifesto of the South Russian People's Council

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The Manifesto of the South Russian People's Council (in Russian: Манифест Южнорусского народного Собора; in Ukrainian: Маніфест Південноруського народного Собору) is a document that proclaimed the creation of the state of Southern Rus on territory of Ukraine "in response to the terror and totalitarian imposition of the ideology of Nazism and Bandera by the former State of Ukraine". This manifesto was written by several members of the United Russia part of the Russian Federation in April 2022 and leaked on 28 April 2022.^[2][3] According to the document's metadata, it had been created by Roman Romanov, and seen by Andrei Turchak and Konstantin Malofeev.

The area which this manifesto considered and highlighted is that of the area which the Russian Army controlled within the borders of Ukraine^[4] after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. In September 2022, Russia declared that it had "annexed" the Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson, Donetsk, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia, even though its forces had been unable to occupy all of these territories.