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The Minsk accords do not cancel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree on the simplified issuance of Russian passports in Donbas, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russia will protect the interests of Russian-speaking people, and therefore the decree on the simplified procedure for obtaining Russian passports by residents of non-Russian territories will not be canceled. controlled by Kiev. The Russian agency “TASS” writes about this on November 6.
A Kremlin spokesman wondered whether Ukraine should take care of its citizens in southeastern Ukraine and provide the necessary social infrastructure.
He added that ethnic Russians also live there. In his opinion, Kiev’s position on granting Russian citizenship is understandable, “but it is fundamentally at odds with Ukraine’s obligations in the Minsk package of measures.”
There is no provision in Minsk’s package of measures to cancel Putin’s decree on the simplified issuance of Russian passports in Donbas, Peskov said.
In 2019, Putin issued two decrees on a simplified procedure for issuing Russian passports. On May 1, he signed a decree on the introduction of a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for residents of ORDLO, and on July 17, a decree on the simplified acquisition of Russian citizenship for all residents of the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry called Putin’s decision “legally null and void” and did not change the membership of residents of the Russian-occupied Donbass territories to Ukrainian citizenship. The then head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Pavel Klimkin, called on ORDLO residents to refrain from becoming Russian citizens.
By September 2020, according to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of Ukraine’s Temporarily Occupied Territories Reznikov, Russia had issued 200 thousand of its passports. residents of the busy Donbass.
The director of the Donetsk Information Institute, the editor-in-chief of the Novosti Donbassa publication, Alexei Matsuka, in an interview with the Radio Liberty Donbass Realii project, said that Russia had promised to issue around 600,000 of its passports in Donbass by the end of this year. In just eight months this year, Russia issued 254,000 passports, he said.
The head of the Ukrainian delegation of the trilateral contact group on the resolution of the conflict in Donbass, the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, spoke about Kiev’s proposal to cancel a series of Putin decisions that directly interfere with the life of CADLO , including Putin’s decrees on a simplified procedure for issuing Russian citizenship.
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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