“Some of the courts will pass into the jurisdiction of the DPR.

Appropriate decisions have already been made on this.

The flags that will be on them are also already clear, ”TASS quoted Pushilin as saying.

He also confirmed that the republic would have its own merchant fleet.

Earlier, Pushilin said that the crews of all foreign ships left the port of Mariupol.

Prior to this, the official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that the port of Mariupol began to operate as usual.