September 29 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday issued a decree recognizing the independence of the occupied regions of Kherson and Zaporizhia in southern Ukraine, paving the way for their formal integration into the territory of the Russian Federation. .
Vladimir Putin is due to preside on Friday in the Kremlin at a signing ceremony for the attachment to Russia of the four Ukrainian territories where annexation referendums have been organized in recent days, in the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporijjia and Kherson. (Report David Ljunggren, Ronald Popeski, French version Jean-Stphane Brosse)