“In case of accession, we become a subject of the Russian Federation, and I think that there is someone there to make this decision.

Therefore, we are simply being military people, although not subjugated, but clearly following orders, we will carry out any order, ”TASS quotes Pasechnik’s answer to the corresponding question.

He noted that the decision will be made jointly.

On September 23, in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, as well as in the liberated territories of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, referendums began on the issue of joining Russia.