Putin simplified issuance of citizenship to residents of two regions of Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the simplified admission of residents of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions of Ukraine to Russian citizenship.

In 2019, Russia established a simplified issuance of citizenship to residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine. Now Putin, by his decree, has added to the same law on simplified citizenship the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions.