Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets is against mass punishment for Ukrainians who received a Russian passport during the occupation of Ukrainian territories. Lubinets stated this in an interview with Ukrayinska Pravda..

“If a citizen of Ukraine remains in the temporarily occupied territory, his main task is to survive there. In order for him to survive, he, probably, for various reasons, needed to obtain a passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation. Believe me, many citizens of Ukraine who are there sometimes publicly say that the Russian Federation is “good and for a long time”, in fact, they are doing a completely different job, bringing these territories closer,” Lubinets said..

He assured that each fact of obtaining a Russian passport would be assessed separately..

According to Lubinets, there are many stories when we clearly understand that there is simply no other choice..

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Earlier, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine Tamila Tasheva said that the very fact of obtaining a Russian passport after the occupation of Crimea did not threaten the inhabitants of the peninsula.. She also told what is planned to be done according to the documents issued by the Russian Federation after the de-occupation of the peninsula..