“Tomorrow, residents of the liberated territory of the Zaporozhye region will begin to receive passports of Russian citizens, that is, they will become full-fledged citizens of our great united Motherland,” TASS quoted him as saying.

According to Aleksey Selivanov, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, as of June 9, more than 4,000 residents of the Zaporozhye region have applied for Russian citizenship.

The head of the military-civilian administration of Melitopol, Galina Danilchenko, in the RT stream "Letuchka" told how the process of issuing Russian passports in the liberated city is going.