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According to the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, Leonid Kravchuk, Kiev in the “Plan of joint steps” will propose to cancel all decisions and documents that are a direct interference in the life of ORDLO, including the decrees of Russian President Vladimir Putin on a simplified issuance of Russian citizenship.
The authorities of the Russian Federation, in particular the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, have adopted a series of decisions that are a direct interference in the life of the temporarily occupied territories of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
On November 5, in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian delegation in the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, spoke about this.
He clarified that such documents and decisions include Putin’s decrees on a simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports: May 1, 2019 President of the Russian Federation signed a decree on the introduction of a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of ORDLO; July 17 – decree on simplified obtaining Russian citizenship for all residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
Kravchuk noted that Putin himself has repeatedly said that this is the territory of Ukraine. Therefore, according to the first president, Kiev will propose to cancel these decisions and documents.
At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called Putin’s decision “legally void” and it does not change the membership of the inhabitants of the Russian-occupied Donbass territories to Ukrainian citizenship. Then glava Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin called the residents of ORDLO refrain from acquiring Russian citizenship.
By September 2020, according to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Ukraine’s Temporarily Occupied Territories Aleksey Reznikov, Russia issued 200,000 of its passports to residents of the occupied Donbass.
Russia began its armed aggression in eastern Ukraine in 2014, immediately after the annexation of Crimea. The fighting is between the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on the one hand, and the Russian army and the Russian-backed militants who control parts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, on the other.
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