“This is, without exaggeration, a landmark event, it will go down in the history books.
I had a feeling that the feelings that we experienced in 2014, when Sevastopol and Crimea returned to Russia, will unite us again.
And so it happened, ”said the deputy.
He noted that he was sincerely happy for the heads of the people's republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
“As a citizen of Sevastopol, who stood at the origins of the referendum in 2014, I understand the aspirations of the inhabitants of these territories.
For eight years they went to their dream - to be in Russia.
Sevastopol and Crimeans over the years have never doubted their choice.
The inhabitants of Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions will not doubt it either.
Because Russia does not abandon its own people, Russia will protect them,” Belik concluded.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin and the heads of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions signed agreements on the accession of these regions to Russia.
The signing of the documents took place in the Georgievsky Hall of the Kremlin.
RT was broadcasting live.