OREANDA-NEWS  President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that recreates the Moscow and Leningrad Military Districts instead of the Western Military District. The president also included the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions in the Southern Military District. 

The Moscow Military District includes Belgorod, Bryansk, Vladimir, Voronezh, Ivanovo, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kursk, Lipetsk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Oryol, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tambov, Tver, Tula and Yaroslavl regions, as well as Moscow.

The Leningrad Military District includes the Republics of Karelia and Komi, Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kaliningrad, Leningrad, Murmansk, Novgorod, Pskov Regions, St. Petersburg, as well as the Nenets Autonomous District.