The Russian President submitted to the National Assembly on the merger of four Ukrainian provinces, in order to make this decision unable to reverse.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on October 2 submitted treaties on the merger of four Ukrainian provinces, Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia to Duma (Russian House of Representatives).
The Russian parliamentarians are expected to vote on the Treaty today.
Putin also gave Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Deputy Foreign Minister Evgeny Ivanov special powers in the merger of new territories.
President Putin spoke in the city of Veliky Novgorod, northwest of Russia on September 21.
In the ruling on the website on October 2, the Russian Constitutional Court recognized the agreement to merge Russia with the People's Republic of Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) self -proclaimed, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
The decision was made by KSRF two days after President Putin and the leaders of the four Ukrainian provinces signed an agreement to merge these territories into Russia according to the results of the referendum on September 23-27.
Western countries have criticized the decision to merge 4 Ukrainian provinces of President Putin, calling this illegal act, and calling for countries and international organizations to refuse to recognize Russia's decision.
G7 allies supported secondary sanctions on any country to support Russia's territory to merge.
4 provinces of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have a total area of 90,000 km2, accounting for 15% of Ukraine and the population is estimated at 4 million.
The Russian areas are controlled in four provinces of referendum to merge into Russia.
The fact that Russia merged 4 Ukraine provinces made the war more unpredictable, when Kiev decided to regain his territory, and Moscow threatened to use nuclear weapons.
Despite the hope of negotiating between Russia and Ukraine became more fragile after 7 months of war, the analysts believed that this door was not completely closed.