This was announced in his Telegram channel by the head of the military-civilian administration (CAA) of the region Yevgeny Balitsky.

“In the Zaporozhye region, people are queuing to receive Russian citizenship.

1.5 thousand people submit documents per day,” he wrote.

Balitsky explained this by saying that people understand that Russia is a social state.

Earlier, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Ivan Nechaev commented on the statement of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk about the work on introducing criminal liability for obtaining a Russian passport.