Kyiv denounces Putin’s ‘illegal’ plan for issuing Russian passports in Ukraine
by Agence France-Presse in Kyiv from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZMTY)
Putin signs decree to make it easier for residents of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to get passports
Moscow's plan to make it easier for Ukrainians living in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine to receive Russian citizenship violates international law, Kyiv has said, accusing the Kremlin of criminal" behaviour.
The illegal issuing of passports ... is a flagrant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as norms and principles of international humanitarian law," the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
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