The Russian House of Representatives unanimously ratifies the Treaty of Annexation of Occupied Territories… The Senate will soon follow.

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Russian House of Representatives convened to discuss treaty on annexation of occupied territories in Ukraine

TAS, MOSCOW (Archyde.com) – The Russian House of Representatives (State Duma) unanimously ratified the treaty of annexation of four territories in Ukraine on the 3rd (local time). Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks after ratification of the treaty. 2022.10.3 [email protected]

(Istanbul = Yonhap News) Correspondent Seong-heum Cho = The Russian House of Representatives (State Duma) has unanimously ratified a treaty on the annexation of four territories occupied in Ukraine, Archyde.com and Sputnik news agency reported on the 3rd (local time).

“Now there are 89 federal entities in the Russian Federation,” Vyacheslav Volodin, Speaker of the House of Representatives, said on Telegram.

After the bill was passed, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov congratulated the representatives of Ukraine’s four occupied territories – Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk (Ukrainian name Luhansk) and Zaporiza – and said he was confident that the Senate would also approve the measure. said.

As a result, the annexation treaty signed by President Vladimir Putin on the 30th of last month with these occupied territories remains only to be ratified by the Senate and finally signed by the president.

The Senate, which plans to review the treaty on the 4th, is also certain to ratify it.

President Putin signed a treaty of annexation with the occupied territories at the Kremlin on the 30th of the same month after the territorial annexation of these occupied territories was decided through a referendum on the 23rd and 27th of last month.

Since then, legal procedures such as the Constitutional Court ruling on the constitutionality of the treaty have been carried out one after another.

However, Ukraine has not acknowledged the annexation and is continuing its territorial offensive offensive. President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a statement released the day before that he had liberated two Russian-occupied villages in Kherson Oblast and that he is spurring the restoration of the occupied territory in Luhansk.

The West has also condemned the annexation as a violation of international law and is pushing for arms aid to Ukraine and additional sanctions against Russia.

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