Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday issued a decree to track citizenship for all Ukraine, more than four months into Moscow’s military attacks in Ukraine.
The decree ordered that “All Ukraine Citizens are” given “the right to submit an application to enter the citizenship of the Russian Federation in a simplified way”.
In May, Putin, who had been tracked quickly for residents from two regions of the southern Ukraine of the Kherson, was almost entirely under the full control of Russian troops, and the southeastern region of Zaporizhzhia, which was partly controlled by Moscow.
In 2019, a similar decree allowed the same simplified procedure to the residents of Donetsk and the Lugansk People Republic of people who proclaimed themselves, the area that separated the East Ukraine.
Moscow and Pro-Moscow officials in areas controlled by the Kremlin forces said they could be part of Russia.