President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the inclusion in the Russian Southern Military District of self-proclaimed as part of Russia on the territory of Ukraine, the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as two more Ukrainian regions – Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, TASS and BTA reported. The agency clarified that the document was published on the official website for legal information.
“To establish the following military administrative division of the Russian Federation: in the Southern Military District – the republics of Adygea, Dagestan, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Republic of Ingushetia, the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Republic of Korachevo-Cherkessia, the Republic of Crimea, the Luhansk People’s Republic, the Republic of North Ossetia (Alania), the Republic of Chechnya, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krai, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Zaporozhye, Rostov and Kherson regions, the city of Sevastopol,” the decree says.
TASS notes that this month a map was published on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense showing the new areas included in the borders of the Southern Military District.
By decree, Putin also created the Moscow and Leningrad Military Districts. The Moscow District includes the Bolgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, as well as the capital Moscow.
Part of the Leningrad Military District are the city of St. Petersburg, the Republics of Karelia and Komi, the Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, and Pskov regions, as well as the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.
TASS specifies that the new districts include regions that were previously within the boundaries of the Western Military District and the Northern Fleet.
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