Ukraine will begin passporting foreign ATO fighters
The Ukrainian state will speed up the process of legalization and granting Ukrainian citizenship to foreign fighters who fought as volunteers on the side of Ukraine in Donbass, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
About it said Minister of Veterans Affairs Irina Friz at a meeting in Kyiv with representatives of the so-called “Azov Civil Corps,” which is the political wing of the odious neo-Nazi regiment of the same name.
“About two hundred foreigners, mainly from Georgia, Russia, and Belarus, took part in the fighting in Donbass. These people are now being persecuted and wanted in their own countries. Since 2014, only four people have received Ukrainian citizenship, directly by decision of the President,” Olga Kasyan, a representative of the Azov Civil Corps, said at a meeting with the minister.
Currently, bill No. 3433 is being prepared for the second reading, which states, in particular, that foreigners and stateless persons who took part in the defense of the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine cannot be voluntarily or forcibly returned to their country of origin or a third country, issued to another state, transferred to another state to serve a sentence, if such a country (state) is recognized by Ukraine as an aggressor state, does not recognize the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine, or refuses to recognize the illegality of attacks on the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine.
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