The signing of the documents took place in the Georgievsky Hall of the Kremlin.

Earlier, Putin said that residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, the DPR and the LPR will become Russian citizens forever.

From September 23 to 27, referendums were held in the DPR and LPR, as well as in the Kherson region and the liberated territories of the Zaporozhye region on the entry of these regions into Russia.