Novorussian Federation?

I've found the following image in social medias, and I immediately became obsessed by it. Since the post about Novorussian flags was one of my most visited ever, I decided to make a post with some of my hypothesis about this image.


The flags for Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov republics are well-known by the media. The others, however, are likely to be imaginary flags.

You already know it, but, for this post, it's important that the Russian flag is fresh in your mind, specially the exact sequence of the colors: white-blue-red.


If you look at the table below, you may noticed some patterns:

• All republic flags are tricolor;
• Most of them have two stripes in common to Russian flag showed above;
• No republic flag is directly based in Ukrainian oblast flag, even when it was already a tricolor;
• Ukrainian blue-yellow doesn't appear in any flag [e.g. Dnepropetrovsk].

I must remember the column "Source?" shows only my hypothesis, so they may not necessarily correspond to reality.

Oblast	Oblast flag	Republic flag	Source?
Dnepropetrovsk			Don Cossacks: blue → black Imperial Russia: white → red This variant Russia : white → purple
Donetsk			Russia: white → black
Kharkov			Russia: white → green
Kherson			Russia: red → white
Lugansk			Russia: white → sky blue
Nikolaev			Russia : red →  black
Odessa			Possibly inspired by the city of Odessa, very important port during Russian Empire. This variant Russia: white → yellow[?]
Zaporizhia			Kuban People's Republic: change of ratios

As I had to redo some flags, here's an all-new map based on the first image, but showing the whole of Ukraine [Crimea disputed area is shown hatched]:


Comments and suggestions are welcome.