“We need to help the residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, adjacent territories, in order to quickly involve them in the economic process, in economic integration with the regions of the Russian Federation,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

Aksyonov noted that a large volume of goods is already coming from the Kherson region.

Earlier, the head of the Crimean parliament, Vladimir Konstantinov, announced the intention of the region's authorities to restore all the railway lines connecting Crimea and the Kherson region of Ukraine.

Crimea's Permanent Representative under the President of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of the region Georgy Muradov said that the southern regions of Ukraine should develop in a single economic, social and humanitarian space with Crimea.