President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appealed to the international community with a request to respond firmly to Russia’s decision to issue passports to residents of the occupied areas of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. This is stated in his video message posted on Facebook.
“It is actually about preparing the Kremlin for the next step of aggression against our state – the annexation of the Ukrainian Donbas or the creation of a Russian enclave in Ukraine. I call on international partners to prevent the worst scenario, to severely condemn the destructive and criminal actions of the Russian authorities and to strengthen the regime of international sanctions,” Petro Poroshenko said.
He also added that he instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to urgently hold a discussion on this issue within the framework of the UN Security Council, as well as other international formats (OSCE and the EU).
As The Journalist reported, Putin had signed a decree on a simplified procedure for acquiring citizenship of the Russian Federation by Ukrainian citizens living in LNR / DNR.
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