The United States of America issued a statement condemning the issue of passports of the Russian Federation for residents of the occupied Donbas. This is stated in the message of the US Embassy in Ukraine on Twitter.
During a breakfast with Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin, the Deputy Assistant Secretary George Kent reiterated strong U.S. support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and emphasized U.S. condemnation of Russia’s destabilizing move to provide passports to Ukrainian citizens.
Recall, on April 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the simplification procedure on issuing Russian passports to the residents of the temporarily occupied Donbas. On April 27, the head of the aggressor state declared that Russia could simplify the procedure for obtaining citizenship for all Ukrainians, and not just those who live in the occupied territories of Donbas. On April 29, the center for issuing Russian passports to residents of the occupied districts of the Luhansk Oblast opened in Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov Region). On April 30, another center for issuing Russian passports to residents of the occupied areas of the Donetsk Oblast opened in the village of Pokrovskoye (Neklinovsky District, Rostov Region).
As The Journalist reported, the Ukrainian passport overtook the Russian one in the world passport rating.
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