“On July 1, in the building of the Migration Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR ... as well as in the sector of the Migration Service of the Budennovsky District Department of the DGU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the DPR ... the first points for issuing passports of a citizen of the Russian Federation were opened,” the department said.

Earlier it was reported that the first point of issuing Russian passports on the territory of the LPR was opened in Lugansk.

Since 2019, about 300 thousand residents of the LPR have received Russian citizenship.