“Now there are 12 points for receiving documents for issuing a passport in the largest settlements of the region in the region: three in Melitopol, two in Berdyansk, Akimovka, Azov, Tokmak, Mikhailovka, Dneprorudny, Enogdar and Kamenka,” Balitsky wrote in Telegram -channel.

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.