"The prosecutor’s office began criminal proceedings on the fact of forced" passportization "of Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region," the report said.
As stated in the department, referring to the SBU, in the LPR citizens of Ukraine forcibly receive passports of a citizen of the self-proclaimed republic.
Earlier, the head of the LPR, Leonid Pasechnik, said that almost all citizens of the republic intend to obtain a Russian passport.