Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted a bill to declare September 30 as the day of reunification of Russia with the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporijia, which were annexed last year.
According to an explanatory memorandum accompanying the proposal, September 30, 2022 “went down in history” as the day of the accession of the four Ukrainian regions to the Russian Federation.
The bill was presented to the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament.
Russia annexed Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporijia, 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 Ukrainian areas under its control in an effort to cement the annexation, elections that were considered illegal by Ukraine and most of the international community.
Voting for Russian-installed parliaments 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 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the worst security crisis since World War II (1939-1945) and caused a large number of casualties over the past eighteen months. only soldiers, but also civilians, impossible to count as long as the conflict continues.
Source: DN
