In November 2022, the Russian departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued more than 100 thousand passports to residents of the territories of Ukraine annexed by Russia. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the data on the website of the ministry was discovered by Mediazona.
We are talking about passports issued to residents of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, as well as residents of the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR. After the Russian authorities decided to formally annex these regions, the State Duma passed laws recognizing local residents as Russian citizens.
If they wish to obtain a Russian passport, they do not go through the citizenship procedure, but only take an oath.
In the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the number of passports issued to them passes through the column about issuing the first Russian passport to a person over 14.
In October, the first month after the annexation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued 44,000 such passports.
Together with the passports that were issued by other procedures, since the beginning of the war and by the end of November, the Russian authorities issued more than 437,000 passports to Ukrainians.
Documents, please. Where and how many Russian passports were distributed to residents of the occupied Ukrainian regions