Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed decrees "on the recognition of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya Regions as "independent territories" based on the "results of referendums" "held" by russians in the occupied territories of Ukraine, russian news agencies report.
These documents “came into force” on 29 September.
The russian leader believes that such decisions conform to "universally recognized principles and norms of international law and the principle of equality and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations".
The Kremlin decided to announce the illegal annexation of the temporarily occupied parts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Luhansk, and Donetsk Regions today, on 30 September.
The so-called ceremony of signing the agreements on the illegal annexation of Ukrainian land to russia is scheduled for 15 o'clock in the Kremlin Palace. Fictitious agreements will be signed on the seized parts of all four Ukrainian regions.
Collaborators and terrorist leaders have already arrived from the temporarily occupied territories in Moscow.
After the fictitious pseudo-referendums on September 23-27, during which russian soldiers with machine guns were coming to the homes of Ukrainians forcing them to tick certain boxes, Putin's spokesman said that russia will continue the war until the complete "liberation", i.e. occupation, of the territory of Donetsk Region.
On 28 September, the leaders of the occupiers started “appealing” to Putin to annex Ukrainian territory.
Earlier, the British Ministry of Defence reported that on Friday, 30 September, during a speech to both houses of the russian parliament, russian President Vladimir Putin may announce the annexation of the occupied Ukrainian territories. The russian parliament has announced an unscheduled session for October 3.