Lavrov announced the need to liberate the territory of new regions of Russia

The territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, which became part of Russia, must be completely liberated, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Channel One, transmits TASS.

During an interview with the Big Game program, Lavrov was asked what borders the new regions were talking about, to which he replied: “I am talking, of course, about their borders within the Russian Federation in accordance with the Russian constitution.”

To a clarifying question whether this means that these territories of Russia have yet to be liberated, he replied: “Of course.”

On September 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the heads of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions signed agreements on the annexation of the regions to Russia. Putin stressed that the inhabitants of the annexed territories “become citizens of the Russian Federation forever.” On October 5, Putin signed federal laws on the admission of four new subjects to the Russian Federation. On October 19, martial law was declared in the new territories.

Referendums on the issue of joining the regions to the Russian Federation were held from 23 to 27 September. According to the results of calculations, 100% of ballots in the DPR and LPR supported joining Russia by 99.23% and 98.42% of those who voted, respectively, in Zaporozhye and Kherson regions – 93.11% and 87.05%, respectively.