“Already more than 130 thousand inhabitants of our Republic have become full-fledged Russian citizens,” RIA Novosti quoted Pushilin as saying.
Earlier it was reported that in 2019, 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.