17 October 2023 at 13:01 The municipality cuts ties with the Russian twin city Rana terminates the friendship agreement with the Russian twin city of Petrosadvodsk. It became clear today, when a unanimous municipal council voted to do just this. Rana had already frozen the deal after Russia started its invasion of Ukraine. On 29 June, news reported that the mayor of Karelia, Vladimir Lubarsky, had enlisted in the Russian army to fight in Ukraine. It is in this municipality that the city of Petrozavodsk is located. He was to join the Akhmat Battalion, which is a Chechen army unit suspected of being behind several war crimes in Ukraine and Chechnya. The mayor of Rana municipality, Geir Waage (Ap), believed in June that the friendship agreement should be broken, and took a serious view of the development. – A new situation has arisen here and now, so we are following the situation and what is happening in Ukraine closely, and then it will be up to the municipal council meeting in October. Against the background that it has emerged through the media that the mayor of Petrozavodsk has enlisted in the controversial Akhmat battalion, which is a Chechen army unit suspected of being behind several war crimes in Ukraine and in Chechnya, the municipality of Rana terminates its friendship city agreement with Petrozavodsk with immediate effect, says the agenda for the municipal council meeting. The decision was adopted unanimously.
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The municipality cuts ties with Russian friendship city – news Nordland
