“I, as the head of the Kherson region, on the basis of the will of the inhabitants of our region, appeal to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin with a proposal to accept the Kherson region as part of the Russian Federation as a new subject,” wrote Saldo in the Telegram channel.

The head of the Lugansk People's Republic, Leonid Pasechnik, also turned to the Russian leader with a request to consider joining the republic to Russia.

Earlier it was reported that the Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin is holding a meeting with the leaders of the Duma factions, where the results of referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions are discussed.