The lower house of the Russian parliament will meet next Friday (15) for an extraordinary session, a few days after President Vladimir Putin warned that he had not yet begun to take the war in Ukraine seriously. With support from lawmakers, Putin challenged the United States and its allies to try to defeat the Russians in Ukraine.
Vladimir Vasilyev, head of the United Russia party, which has 325 of the 456 seats in parliament, announced that 80 bills would be discussed, without specifying which ones. Vasilyev also told a news conference that lawmakers assured Putin that the Russian parliament would help two self-declared Russian-backed breakaway republics in eastern Ukraine to develop their legal system.
Ukraine and its Western supporters argue that Putin has no justification for this “imperial-style land grab”. Russia has increasingly presented the war as a country’s battle against the United States. According to Putin, the “West humiliated the Soviet Union in 1991” by expanding NATO to the east and using Ukraine to threaten Russia.
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