An opposition journalist, according to Secretary of the National Security Council Aleksey Danilov, must go through a certain procedure and give up his Russian passport.
Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov, against whom a criminal case has been initiated in the Russian Federation, has not yet received Ukrainian citizenship. Such a statement in an interview with «24 channel» made by Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov.
According to him, despite the fact that Oleksandr Danilov announced that he had received Ukrainian citizenship, the opposition journalist has not yet been issued a Ukrainian passport.
«Let's put aside Nevzorov in a separate box. Firstly, he does not yet have citizenship, he just applied for citizenship», — said Alexey Danilov.
As the head of the National Security and Defense Council noted, in order to obtain the relevant documents, it is necessary to go through a certain procedure in accordance with the current legislation and Constitution.
Moreover, Alexander Nevzorov, in the event of granting Ukrainian citizenship, is obliged to renounce his Russian citizenship. Speaking in the context of «good Russians», Oleksiy Danilov said that many oligarchs from the aggressor country also want to get a Ukrainian passport.
«And here it can be a strange situation when we say that our Ukrainian oligarchs are bad, and Russian for someone are considered such «good guys», who financed Putin, the Russian army all his life, and what now we have to negotiate with them. It will pass»,” continued the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council and added that the Russians had to determine their civil position at the very beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Armed Forces into Ukraine.
Recall that on June 3, the media reported that that Russian journalist Alexander Nevzorov and his wife Lydia received Ukrainian citizenship. The decree on issuing passports to the oppositionists, according to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, was signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Aleksandr Nevzorov himself, explaining the acquisition of Ukrainian citizenship, said that he had decided to take the side of those citizens who were shot by the occupiers. Later, information appeared in the media that the Russian oppositionist was handed a passport of a citizen of Ukraine on May 21. The decree on granting citizenship, as journalists noted, was closed, so it was not published on the website of the Office of the President.
Head of State Volodymyr Zelensky argued that Ukraine should use all methods in the fight against Russia .