“The total number of those who wrote the application is about 950 thousand people.
People now continue to go to the migration services and write applications for Russian citizenship, ”TASS quoted him as saying.
Vodolatsky added that more than 770,000 people in Donbas have already received Russian citizenship.
Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the Kremlin does not consider the issuance of Russian passports to residents of the LPR and DPR as a violation of the Minsk agreements.
The press service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported that the evacuation of refugees from Donbass will be carried out around the clock.
According to the Acting Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Alexander Chupriyan, more than 40 thousand refugees from Donbass have already arrived in Russia.