An employee of a pension fund holds a Russian passport. Archival photoSIMFEROPOL, May 27. In the liberated part of the Zaporizhzhia region, there was an excessive demand for obtaining Russian citizenship, Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the military-civilian administration of the Zaporozhye region, told RIA Novosti. President Vladimir Putin had previously signed a decree on simplified admission to Russian citizenship of residents of the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions. Hundreds of people come with questions about where to carry documents. They say they want to be among the first to become citizens of Russia. At the same time, there is a very large number of applicants from the city of Zaporozhye, which is still under the control of the Zelensky regime", Rogov said.
According to him, all the necessary infrastructure has already been prepared in the region to start accepting documents for obtaining Russian citizenship .Russia has been conducting a military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine since February 24. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, by the end of March, the Russian army had completed the main tasks of the first stage — it significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the department was called the liberation of Donbass. During the special operation, the Russian military took control of the Kherson region and the Azov part of the Zaporozhye region. Civil-military administrations have been formed in the regions, Russian TV channels and radio stations have begun broadcasting, and trade ties with Crimea are being restored. for Moscow time