“At the moment, almost 83 thousand residents of the Donetsk People’s Republic have received Russian passports,” the representative of the department said.
Earlier it was reported that over the past year, 227 thousand residents of Donbass received Russian passports.
On April 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the simplified acquisition of citizenship by residents of the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR.
Later, bills were developed to simplify the procedure for acquiring Russian citizenship for Ukrainians and Belarusians.