Vladimir Putin had a working meeting with Acting Head of the Lugansk People’s Republic Leonid Pasechnik.

The ceremony for presenting the highest state decorations of the Russian Federation took place at the Kremlin’s St Catherine Hall.

On August 4–6, Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Lugansk and Donetsk people’s republics.

On April 6–7, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova visited the Donetsk (DPR) and Lugansk (LPR) people’s republics. She discussed issues pertaining to children’s aid with the republics’ heads and delivered humanitarian cargo to medical institutions in Donbass and to a border distribution centre near Mariupol as part of the Into Children’s Hands campaign.