7) In view of the difficulty of notifying the Russian combat units about this agreement, it will come into full force only at four o'clock in the afternoon on May 5, 1918, New Style. 8) The question of the conditions for resuming hostilities will be decided in Konotop, where negotiations will continue. 9) Four copies of this agreement will be made in Russian and German, and each side will receive two Russian and two German copies. Additionally, the German representatives will receive the Russian original, and the Russian representatives will receive the German one. 10) The purpose of this agreement is to conclude a ceasefire in view of peace negotiations. This agreement has been read to all representatives in their native language and has been accepted and signed by them.
By informing you of this, we instruct you to immediately take the necessary steps to conclude a similar agreement with the German-Ukrainian command on your front, and to timely inform the Sovnarkom in Moscow and the Russian peace delegation in Kursk.
Chairman of the Sovnarkom, Lenin.
Chairman of the Peace Delegation, I. Stalin.

NOTE TO G. V. CHICHERIN
[May 8, 1918]
Should we not send a delegation to Kiev immediately?
In my opinion, we should send it. It is unwise to wait for formal guarantees from the Germans, as their statement itself is a guarantee, and the loss of time is harmful to us and beneficial to the Germans.

The note to G. V. Chicherin was written by Lenin in response to the statement of the German government on May 8, 1918, regarding the transfer of negotiations with Ukraine from Kursk to Kiev; there apparently was an opinion that the sending of the delegation should be postponed until guarantees of safety for our delegation were received from the German government. Lenin, however, considered it advisable to send the delegation "immediately" without waiting for formal guarantees from the Germans.
From subsequent documents related to the negotiations with Ukraine, it is evident that these guarantees were promised by the German government (see "Izvestia of the VTsIK," No. 106, May 28, 1918, on the issue of the safety and inviolability of the peace delegation). On May 8, a radio message was sent by the Sovnarkom.