People’s Deputies voted for a resolution on the situation in Donbass. The corresponding decision was supported by 308 deputies, except for representatives of the Opposition Platform – For Life party.
“The Verkhovna Rada demands that the Russian Federation immediately cease hostilities and unswervingly observe the ceasefire, fully fulfill its international obligations and withdraw from Ukraine its army, mercenaries, armed formations, which it leads, provides and finances, their weapons and equipment and return to Ukraine under full control of the internationally recognized borders”, – the Rada’s resolution says.
The People’s Deputies also called on the world community to continue and increase international political and economic pressure on Russia in order to “end the aggression, withdraw foreign troops and weapons from the territory of Ukraine”.
Earlier it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet to discuss the situation in Donbass without Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.