06.04.2025, 09:47

Occupants speed up the process of obtaining forced Russian citizenship in the occupied territories

A new decree by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin obliged Ukrainian citizens staying in Russia and the occupied territories of Ukraine to "legalize their stay in Russia or leave the country" by September 1.

On the TOT of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, it is possible to obtain the citizenship of the occupying state within 10 days. Ruslan Yakubov, the Head of the State Committee for Interethnic Relations of the Republic of Crimea, made this statement.

According to the collaborator, the bodies of the Russian federal migration service work 5 days a week in Simferopol and in "regional branches" in the TOT of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; at the same time, all the necessary specialists can allegedly be seen "in one visit."

"A single migration center has been created in Crimea, which has a full range of services. There are health care workers there who assist in obtaining all medical certificates. There are also representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs [of the Russian Federation] and the Crimean Federal University, who help to gain knowledge and then pass the Russian language exam," Yakubov said.

The collaborator also emphasized that Ukrainian citizens from the TOT of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk regions have priority in the procedure for obtaining "passports of Russian citizens".

On April 1, 2014, the so-called "law" came into force. so-called "agreement on the acceptance of the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol into the Russian Federation", which Russian dictator Putin signed in the Kremlin on March 18 with his Crimean puppets - self-proclaimed "heads" of the Verkhovna Rada and the Council of Ministers of the ARC Sergey Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov and "people's mayor of Sevastopol" Alexei Chaly, and which 20-21 March was ratified by the Russian government by issuing a corresponding law. Article 5 of Putin's "agreement on the acceptance of Crimea into Russia" declared citizens of Ukraine and stateless persons who permanently resided and were registered in Crimea at the time of its Russian occupation to be "citizens of the Russian Federation" (the key date was March 18, 2014).

An exception was made for persons who from March 18 to April 18 2014 year expressed a desire to retain their existing citizenship or remain stateless. Due to the critically small number of points that accepted such applications and their physical inability to serve all those who wished to do so, only up to 3.5 thousand residents of the occupied Crimea were able to renounce the imposed Russian citizenship.

More than two million people "automatically" became "citizens" of the occupying state.