“On behalf of the people of the Luhansk People’s Republic, I want to sincerely thank the Syrian Arab Republic, headed by its leader Bashar al-Assad, for such a bold, responsible political gesture,” TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, the SANA agency, citing the Syrian Foreign Ministry, reported that the Syrian Foreign Ministry announced the decision of Damascus to recognize the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics.
LPR Ambassador to Russia Rodion Miroshnik said that Syria's recognition of the independence and sovereignty of the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics has not yet been formalized on paper.