In a year and a half, 170 thousand residents of the occupied Donbass received Russian citizenship

Over a year and a half, more than 170 thousand residents of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic have received Russian citizenship, the head of the separatists Denis Pushilin said on Wednesday, Radio Liberty reports..

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At the same time, the document was signed by Putin almost simultaneously with the victory of Vladimir Zelensky in the presidential elections in Ukraine, who expressed his readiness to cooperate with Russia to resolve the conflict in Donbass.. As a result, Zelensky condemned Putin's decision and called on the West to respond to it by tightening anti-Russian sanctions.