These documents marked the main stages of the development of the nascent Ukrainian state, from the proclamation of its autonomy to the declaration of full independence.

For its part, the UCR recognized the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, and before convening it undertook not to take unauthorized steps towards the realization of Ukraine's autonomy.

Given the political crisis caused by mass demonstrations, the defeat of the Russian army on the Southwest Front, and the consequent loss of Galicia, the Provisional Government could not use force alone, as Ukrainianized units and a large part of Ukraine's population could defend the Central Rada.

The possibility of seconding representatives of Ukraine to the cabinet of the Minister of War and the General Staff was considered a military issue.

7 November] 1917 proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR), formally without severing federal ties with Russian Republic, and democratic principles: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, unions, strikes, inviolability of person and home ; declared national autonomy for minorities (Russians, Poles, Jews), abolished the death penalty, as well as the right of private ownership of land and recognized it as the property of the whole people without ransom, established an 8-hour working day, announced local government reform, set January 9, 1918 as a day elections to the Ukrainian Constituent Assembly, which were to be convened on January 22, 1918.

[2] It replaced the standing army with police, instructed to hold elections of people's councils — volost, povit and local, established a monopoly on trade, control over banks, confirmed the law on the transfer of land to peasants without redemption, taking as a basis the abolition of property and socialization of land.

Instructed the Council of People's Ministers to continue the negotiations with the Central Powers and bring them to the signing of peace; called on all citizens of the UPR to fight the Bolsheviks.

7 November] 1917, 1917 approved the Third Universal, in which it proclaimed the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) as a federation of free peoples, without formally severing federal ties with Russia, and democratic principles: freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, unions, strikes, inviolability of person and home; declared national autonomy for minorities (Russians, Poles, Jews), abolished the death penalty, as well as the right of private ownership of land and recognized it as the property of the whole people without ransom, established an 8-hour working day, announced local government reform.

9 provinces come under the power of the Central Rada: Kyiv, Podil, Volyn, Chernihiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Ekaterinoslav, Kherson and Tavriia (excluding Crimea).

All laws, resolutions and orders of the Provisional Government remained in force on the territory of Ukraine, unless they were repealed by the Central Council or the General Secretariat.