MOSCOW—Russian legislators will Tuesday take into account proposals urging President Vladimir Putin to formally acknowledge the separatist-controlled areas of jap Ukraine as unbiased states, in a transfer that would justify Moscow’s incursion into an space it now not considers to be Ukrainian territory.
The State Duma, Russia’s decrease home of parliament, stated Monday it could take into account draft resolutions submitted by the ruling United Russia celebration and Russia’s Communist Get together calling on Mr. Putin to acknowledge the sovereignty of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine’s Donbas area.
