The Russian presidency, the Kremlin, announced on Saturday that President Vladimir Putin will visit the separatist Donbass region at the appropriate time.
“It will certainly happen in time, because it (Donbass) is a region of the Russian Federation,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in response to a question about the possibility of Putin visiting Donbass.
On September 30, President Putin signed a document annexing the regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhia to Russia, amid widespread rejection and condemnation from the West.
Russia took control of the four regions after a military attack launched by its army on February 24, and Moscow conditions to end its operation Ukraine’s commitment to neutrality and its abandonment of plans to join military entities, which the latter considers an “interference” in its sovereignty.
