Duma was called into closed session at 1500 UTC as the Defence Minister requested formal permission for the deployment of Russian troops abroad.
Permission, unsurprisingly, granted.
Which means Putin now has formal authority to deploy troops into Donetsk and Luhansk republics - and of course the rest of the Donbass - or elsewhere in Ukraine…
https://english.pravda.ru/news/russi...roops_donbass/
Andrey Klishas, the head of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, said that three committees recommended senators satisfy the appeal to use Russian armed forces "outside the territory of the Russian Federation, on the basis of generally recognised principles and norms of international law."
