Donbass Reintegration Law Published in the Verkhovna Rada Newspaper

Photo from Ukrinform – UATV

 

The Donbass Reintegration Law, called “On Peculiarities of the State Policy on Ensuring the State Sovereignty of Ukraine in the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk and Luhansk Regions,” was officially published in the Verkhovna Rada newspaper “Holos Ukrayniy,”  on Feb. 23.

At the same time, the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, said that this law qualifies Russia as an aggressor state, and that Russia illegally occupied Ukrainian territories. This law substantially strengthens the legal basis for the use of the armed forces for the defense of Ukraine in the East.

Also, according to him, this law defines and establishes the basic parameters of the protection of the civil rights and freedoms of the civilian population.