In the occupied by the Russian military regions of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, an accelerated procedure for issuing Russian passports was launched. According to Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, the deputy prime minister of Russia, the issue began the day before. Applications for passports, according to him, were submitted by more than 50 people. More than 1 million people lived before the Russian invasion of the Kherson region, more than 1.6 million people in Zaporizhzhya.
On the eve of Interfax announced the opening of the first unit of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS) in the Zaporizhzhya Melitopol. The “simplified procedure” is not implied by the refusal of Ukrainian citizenship, the city administration appointed by Russia said.
Member of the Main Council of the Military-Civil Administration of the Zaporizhzhya Region, Vladimir Rogov, appointed by the Russian authorities, previously stated that the region “would take a course for joining Russia.” “The future of the Zaporizhzhya region can only have one thing – it should be part of Russia, should become a full -fledged subject of the Russian Federation,” said Rogov. This was also spoke about this by the “deputy head of the military-civil administration” of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremuzov.