Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and the Constitution of the Russian Federation. File photoMOSCOW, July 22The Ukrainian authorities are discussing the possibility of introducing criminal liability for obtaining a Russian passport, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said. «The introduction of criminal liability for obtaining a Russian passport: this is what was discussed today at a closed interagency meeting… designated,” Vereshchuk wrote in her Telegram channel. At the same time, she admitted that the issue is “not so much legal as political.” According to her, on the one hand, a Russian passport «helps an ordinary person survive in a temporary occupation,» but on the other hand, it is difficult to explain this to «people who are on the front line.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. At the moment, the Russian Armed Forces have taken control of such large cities as Kherson (regional center), Melitopol, Berdyansk. Mariupol was completely liberated — the last militants of the Azov National Regiment, who continued to resist at the Azovstal plant, surrendered on May 20. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, water flows to the peninsula. The problem of water shortage in the Crimea, according to the authorities, is no longer relevant. Russian troops are moving forward in the north of the DPR. The Lugansk People's Republic was completely liberated — the cities of Lisichansk and Severodonetsk were taken, which became the last centers of resistance of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the LPR. Allied forces advance towards Kharkiv and Slovyansk.
Ukrainian MFA: no Russians applied for a visa in a week
