The Ukrainian authorities have named the number of residents of the uncontrolled territories of Donbass who have received Russian passports, reports “Gordonua.com”.
“About 300 thousand Ukrainians have gone through compulsory Russian passports,” said the Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Reznikov .
According to him, the Ukrainian state has no complaints against them.
“People are forced to take these passports because they are hostages, this is their way of surviving there. Therefore, we definitely have no right to blame them for this,” Reznikov said.
In August, the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) Denis Pushilin reported that more than 130 thousand residents received Russian citizenship in a simplified manner. p >
On April 24, 2019, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a decree on simplified extradition to residents Donbass Russian passports. He stressed that the measure is purely humanitarian in nature and does not aim to create problems for the Ukrainian authorities.