It is reported by the Donetsk news agency.
“In a simplified manner, 9825 people received a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation,” the agency quotes the agency’s message.
On July 25, the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs Migration Service announced that more than 5.5 thousand residents of the republic received Russian passports.
On July 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing residents of all regions of Donbass to obtain Russian citizenship in a simplified mode.
The head of the Commission on Migration Policy of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Yevgeny Bobrov, in an interview with the NSN, commented on the issuance of Russian passports in the Donbass.