Klimkin expects Russian passports for all of Ukraine
In the future, Russia will issue passports not only to residents of the Donbass republics, but also to the entire population of Ukraine.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“We were expecting a decision on issuing passports in the occupied territories. Russia has been preparing this infrastructure for a long time. We understand perfectly well that this decision was made because Moscow stopped thinking that they would establish a pro-Russian reality here.
They will systematically try to interfere in our internal affairs. Moreover, this applies not only to the occupied territories. Of course, in the future they will try to use this infrastructure to issue passports not only for the occupied territories. Everyone understands perfectly well how they completely illegally issued passports in Crimea,” said the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
According to him, Kyiv is now working on an international response.
“Not only political pressure on Russia is needed, but also additional sanctions. And you understand perfectly well that in the case of, for example, the EU’s response to the attack on our sailors and our ships in the Kerch Strait, we were talking about personal sanctions. Here, I believe, we should think about sectoral and economic sanctions. We started discussing this. Yesterday we had a very good meeting of the Security Council, where Russia’s actions were unequivocally condemned,” Klimkin added.
Let us recall that earlier Russian socio-political figure and publicist Nikolai Starikov said that after the issuance of Russian passports to residents of the Donbass republics it is necessary to initiate the same procedure for all citizens of Ukraine.
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