The Russian presidency (Kremlin) confirmed that the lands that were annexed to Ukraine on the territory of Russia will forever remain Russian, and also promised to restore the lands controlled by Ukraine, given that “reports about the possibility of the Ukrainian authorities using American weapons on targets Crimea.” Seriously and testifies to the involvement of Washington in the conflict.

In another context, she stressed that Russia should be a party to the investigation of the leak in the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which connects Russia with Germany by sea.

The announcement comes as Serhiy Gaidai, the Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region, said: “You can say that the process of liberating Lugansk has already begun,” one of the regions that Moscow has announced its annexation.

Earlier in the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin officially signed a decree on the annexation of four Ukrainian regions to Russia: Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye and Kherson, TASS reports.