Russian state media reports that the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR), both occupied territories in eastern Ukraine that the Russian Federation claims to have annexed, adopted new “constitutions” on Friday, The Guardian

Denis Pusilin Photo: Oleksandr Ryumin / TASS / Profimedia

The Russian state agency TASS quotes the self-proclaimed leader of the DPR Denys Pusilin: “Today we are participants in a historic event. This stage marks the return of Donbass to the bosom of the Russian cultural and historical tradition, the realization of our hopes, the achievement of the goal for which we worked for eight long years.”

TASS reports that in the DPR “76 deputies present at the meeting voted for the adoption of the constitution,” and in the LPR the parliament “unanimously adopted the new constitution of the republic by 43 deputies.”

Before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision in September to annex four oblasts of Ukraine – Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia – only three UN member states recognized any legitimate authority as the DPR or LPR.

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