The Russian Federation Council, the upper house of parliament, upholds the constitutional laws drafted by the State Duma regarding the accession of the DPR, LPR, Kherson, and Zaporozhye regions into Russia.
The ceremony – eight years after Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine following an invasion and a similar vote – will take place at 3 pm local time in the columned St George's Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace.
The head of the upper house of the Russian parliament said it could consider the incorporation of the four partially occupied regions three days before President Vladimir Putin's 70th birthday.