Inhabitants of the occupied Crimea for 2015-2016 were issued almost 60 thousand Ukrainian passports.

The relevant statistics was pointed out on his page in Facebook by the People's Deputy from the People's Front Dmitry Tymchuk.

"It is not a secret that residents of the occupied Crimea, including those who cheerfully called on Putin, have long been tempted to do Ukrainian biometric passports. Well, they do not want to admire the beauties of the Russian Urals and the "Golden Ring", even kill, "he wrote.

The People's Deputy cited official data of the State Migration Service, according to which in 2015-2016. Persons registered in the Crimea and Sevastopol, were issued:.

- 26,140 biometric passports - 18,622 non-biometric passports - 5,304 biometric documents for traveling abroad to children under 16 years old - 7,075 non-biometric documents for traveling abroad to children under 16 years of age "T. , More than 57 thousand. Persons officially registered in the Crimea received the foreign passport of Ukraine. This number includes refugees from the Crimea, who were forced to leave the occupied peninsula. But the lion's share is people living in the Crimea, "he explained..

According to Tymchuk, in particular, almost 12 thousand. Passports to the inhabitants of Crimea and Sevastopol issued the organs of the HMS of the Kherson region. In second place Kiev - 9.4 thousand.

"A lot of documents have also been issued in Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk and Kharkov regions (people board a train in Novoalekseevka and go to the region where they managed to agree)," he said..

"It will be interesting to compare the statistics for 2017. In Crimea and Sevastopol, there is a mass of announcements "We will issue a Ukrainian passport. Without going to the mainland, "- concluded Tymchuk.

As reported by the "Observer", on May 11 the Council of the EU finally approved the visa-free regime for Ukraine.

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