On 22 February 2022, Rashkin supported, in the State Duma, the ratification of the government decisions of the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the ‘Donetsk People’s Republic”’ and the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’”.
He is the founder of the civil movement “Krassnaya Moskva – Red Moscow – Patriotic Front Aid” which organised public demonstrations supporting separatists, thereby supporting policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law “On the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the ‘Republic of Crimea’ and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects – the ‘Republic of Crimea’ and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol”.