Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced a bill to declare September 30 as Russia’s Reunification Day with the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, annexed last year.
According to an explanatory note to the proposal, September 30, 2022 “went down in history” as the day of entry of the four Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation.
The bill was submitted to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament.
Russia annexed Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, regions it does not control in its entirety, on September 30, 2022, in a ceremony at the Kremlin.
Last weekend, Moscow held regional and local elections for the first time in the Ukrainian territories under its control, to try to reinforce the annexation, in elections considered illegal by Ukraine and most of the international community.
Voting for Russian-installed legislatures began last week and, according to the Central Election Commission, deputies from the ruling United Russia party came first in the four Ukrainian regions annexed last year and in the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed. in 2014.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 of last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since the Second World War (1939-1945) and in the last 18 months caused a high number of victims, not only military but also civilians, impossible to count as long as the conflict continues.
Source: TSF
