He told about this on the air of the YouTube channel "Solovyov LIVE".
“About 2.3 million people live, this is only in the Donetsk People's Republic,” he said.
According to him, about 350 thousand residents of the DPR have already received Russian citizenship under a simplified scheme, but the process of obtaining Russian passports has been slowed down due to the coronavirus.
Earlier, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov answered a question about the prospects of the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR.