On the side of the occupied territories, the "heads" Denys Pushylin (the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic") and Leonid Pasechnik (the so-called "Luhansk People's Republic") and the Russian-appointed "heads" of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya military-civil administrations Volodymyr Saldo and Yevhen Balitsky signed the agreements.

According to Russian presidential spokesman Dmitriy Peskov, the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, as well as the occupied parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, will become "an integral part of Russian territory, as well as of the Union State" after they sign agreements with Moscow. 

Peskov separately stressed that Moscow believes that the entire territory of the so-called "DPR" within the 2014 borders, including the part now under Ukrainian control, which makes up about half of the Donetsk region, will be part of Russia. "It [the entire territory of the DPR within the 2014 borders of the Donetsk Region] will have to be liberated," Peskov said.