The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has protested the fact that centers for issuing Russian passports to residents of districts of Donbas not controlled by Kyiv have started operations in Russian territory (Rostov region). In connection with that fact, Ukraine called on the international community not to recognize such documents, as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reports on its website.
“Ukraine is urging its international partners not to recognize and not to accept documents issued by Russia in violation of the Ukrainian constitution and laws to citizens of Ukraine living in the territories in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine that are temporarily occupied by Russia, as well as any transactions carried out with such documents,” said in a statement.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry stressed that in taking such steps the Russian Federation “is manifestly demonstrating its absolute disregard for the norms and principles of international law, and having deliberately chosen a course toward escalation, it is also fundamentally undermining the Minsk Agreements, a party to which it is.”
“We categorically demand from the Russian Federation to immediately stop internationally wrongful acts against the state sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, to repeal changes in the federal laws of the Russian Federation on citizenship issues in terms of facilitating its acquisition for citizens of Ukraine, as well as decrees of the President of Russia No.183 dated April 24, 2019 and No.74 dated February 18, 2017 and all decisions made to implement them,” the statement said.
As The Journalist reported, Russia began issuing passports for ORDLO residents in Rostov Region.
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