The Russian occupiers began issuing Russian passports in the occupied territories .

The adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petro Andryushchenko reported about it.

“Top news about Russian passports for Kherson and Zaporizhia will not be complete, if we do not add that today the so-called” DNR “started for Mariupol and the newly occupied territories of Donetsk region to obtain Russian passports without obtaining a passport of the so-called” DNR “, – he wrote in the Telegram channel.

“The actual annexation, in particular, of Mariupol has begun,” Andryushchenko added.

We will remind, today the president of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the decree on the simplified procedure of reception in the Russian citizenship of inhabitants of the Zaporizhia and Kherson areas . In fact, it means the forced certification of Ukrainians in the occupied territories.

On April 24, 2019, Putin signed a similar decree for residents of the occupied territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions of Ukraine. After that, the Russian Federation began to conduct compulsory certification of ORDLO residents.