About half a million Ukrainians got Russian citizenship in 2019, which is almost two times more than in the same period of 2018 (270 thousand).
according to TASS, about this community informed the head of the main Department of the MIA of Russia for migration Valentina Kazakova, speaking at a meeting of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs. According to her, the majority of owners of Russian passports to residents of Luhansk and Donetsk.
April 24, 2019, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin on 24 April 2019 signed a decree allowing for the residents of Donbas at simplified procedure to obtain Russian citizenship.
