Residents of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are issued Russian passports through additional votes, which will be needed in the upcoming elections in Russia, as well as in order to keep them in the occupied territories. The member of the Ukrainian delegation in the Tripartite contact group on Donbas Tatyana Ivanova told about it on air “Ukraine 24”.
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“We are considering several reasons why passports are being issued. First, elections are approaching in Russia, and additional votes will be needed. Second, it is still very difficult for them to keep people in the uncontrolled territory. People are starting to leave uncontrolled territories en masse. only to Ukraine, but also to other countries, not only to Russia, as the humanitarian situation in ORDLO is getting worse, “Ivanova said.
A member of the TCG notes that the residents of ORDLO are doing everything possible to go abroad in order to obtain quality higher education. It is noted that people go to Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia. To suspend this process, “local authorities” want to make Russian passports – so that “people do not have Ukrainian passports at all.”
“And it will be a really humanitarian catastrophe for the people who stayed there. They will not be able to come to Ukraine and get their pension, or be treated, or teach children, or communicate with relatives, and many other problems,” said a member of the Ukrainian delegation. TCG.
According to a report by the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission, in the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, the “authorities” of the self-proclaimed republics are threatening to reduce the salaries of citizens who refuse to obtain Russian citizenship.
According to the UN, coercive methods are used in the occupied territories to obtain Russian citizenship. “Local authorities” restrict the freedom of citizens in every possible way, and issue “decrees” that do not comply with IHL.
In April 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On defining for humanitarian purposes the category of persons who have the right to apply for citizenship of the Russian Federation in a simplified manner.”
According to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov, only in the occupied Donbas and Crimea did compulsory Russian passportization affect almost 90% of the population.
This year it became known that Russia intends to involve in the elections to the State Duma in the autumn of 2021 residents of non-Ukrainian-controlled areas of Donbas with Russian passports.
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Source: Ukrgate
