[10] According to the party, their aim is "the withdrawal of all south-eastern Ukrainian lands from the jurisdiction of the Kyiv authorities based on the principle of direct democracy creating a new, truly fair, scientifically and technologically advanced state.

[12] Its creation was announced by Pavel Gubarev, then acting as "People's Governor" of Donetsk, who stated, "The new party will be led only by those people who in this difficult time showed themselves as true patriots of their Motherland and proved themselves as true fighters and defenders of their Fatherland.

"[12] The first congress was attended by pro-Russian separatist officials of the Donetsk People's Republic, Donbas Militia.

Notable figures were involved, including: Donetsk People's Republic leader Pavel Gubarev (former member of the Neo-Nazi Russian National Unity and Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine), writer Alexander Prokhanov, fascist[13][14][15] political scientist and Eurasia Party leader Aleksandr Dugin, and Valery Korovin.

[16] According to Gubarev the state would also include (the major cities currently not under control of separatists) Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia.