MPs propose extending the law on legal regime in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine to the territories occupied by the Russian Federation as a result of the military aggression launched on February 24.

The corresponding draft law No. 7157 On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and the Legal Regime in the Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine due to military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine was registered in the Verkhovna Rada by a group of MPs on Sunday, the parliament's website reports.

The bill, in particular, proposes to amend the law On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and the Legal Regime in the Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine.

The document provides that the decision to recognize the temporarily occupied territories is made by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and put into effect by the President of Ukraine.

According to the bill, under martial law, the legal regime of the temporarily occupied territory is determined, changed and canceled by the decision of the National Security and Defense Council and put into effect by a presidential decree.

MPs propose to introduce a new article into the law, according to which the elections of deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, deputies of local councils, village, settlement, city heads, local and any other referendums held in the temporarily occupied territory, including with the assistance or participation of state bodies and bodies of local self-government, formed in accordance with the Constitution and laws of Ukraine, are invalid and have no legal consequences.

As reported, the law On Ensuring the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens and the Legal Regime in the Temporarily Occupied Territory of Ukraine applied only to the temporarily occupied by Russia Crimea and certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.