China News Agency, Moscow, February 22 (Reporter Tian Bing) Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the 22nd to ratify the friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance treaties between Russia and the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" in eastern Ukraine.
On the same day, the Russian Federation Council (the upper house of parliament) passed a resolution allowing the Russian president to use the Russian Federation's armed forces abroad.
Earlier in the day, the Russian State Duma (lower house of parliament) and the Federation Council (upper house of parliament) ratified the treaty.
The treaty defines the policy for Russia to develop comprehensive and long-term cooperation with each other, covering a wide range of political, economic, social, military and humanitarian fields.
The treaty will enter into force on the date of the exchange of ratifications.
In addition, the Russian Federation Council held a non-routine meeting on the 22nd and unanimously passed a resolution allowing the Russian president to use the Russian Federation's armed forces abroad.
According to the resolution, “According to the generally recognized norms and norms of international law, the Federation Council has decided to allow the President of the Russian Federation to use the Russian armed forces outside the Russian Federation. The President of the Russian Federation decides on the composition, location, tasks and presence of foreign troops in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation. the term."
The TASS news agency quoted Kleishas, chairman of the Constitutional and Legislative Committee of the Russian Federation Council, as saying that the relevant treaties and documents laid the legal basis for the presence of the Russian military on the territories of the two "republics" mentioned above.
On the 21st, Putin signed an order on the recognition of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and on the recognition of the "Luhansk People's Republic", as well as a treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between Russia and the two "republics" respectively.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia's recognition of the two "republics" in eastern Ukraine on the 22nd, saying that Russia's decision violated Ukraine's national sovereignty and territorial integrity and undermined the peace efforts of all parties and the existing negotiation model.
Zelensky said he would consider the proposal of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to sever diplomatic relations with Russia.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry recalled the Chargé d'affaires ad hoc of the Ukrainian embassy in Russia on the same day.
In April 2014, a large-scale armed conflict between government forces and local civilian armed forces broke out in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.
Civilian armed forces subsequently announced the establishment of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic".
Through the mediation of the international community, the two parties to the conflict reached a ceasefire agreement in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, in September 2014 and February 2015 respectively. Since then, large-scale armed conflicts have been brought under control, but small-scale exchanges of fire have occurred from time to time.
Since the 17th of this month, the situation in the eastern part of Uzbekistan has deteriorated. The Uzbek government and local civilian armed forces have accused each other of launching provocative shelling on the contact line.
On the 18th of this month, the leaders of the "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" announced that in view of the possible risk of war, they would begin to organize large-scale transfer of people to Russia, and on the 21st requested Russia President Vladimir Putin recognized it as an "independent country".
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