"Passport of the Russian Federation - privilege and necessity" - how Russians convince Ukrainians to receive a document

In the occupied territories of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, Russians impose passports of the Russian Federation: someone persuade "document", to someone threatens. In the temporarily occupied territories of Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, representatives of the Russian -controlled administrations force local residents to abandon Ukrainian documents and make Russian passports. Witnesses told Focus journalists.

"As soon as the occupiers announced the distribution of Russian passports, they were confronted with the fact that no one went to them. As far as I know, there were only about ten applications," says the focus of Nicholas, a resident of the occupied energy of Zaporizhzhya region.

- Of course, a picture for Television will not do so, so the Russians began to persuade - to say that receiving the Russian passport is a privilege that entitles residents to "liberated" territories to become a full citizen 'ie, that is, in fact called for dual citizenship. They proved that the Russian passport is necessary for receiving payments and social services. " But these "arguments", according to the local, did not work. Then the Russians decided to resort to fear policy.

"Property - houses, apartments, land - it is necessary to re -form, and without the passport of Russia it is not. In addition, they began to threaten. Children should be sent to schools, of course, updated, and it is possible to do so with Russian documents. If the child is in school Parents can deprive parental rights for "violation of the right of a child to education", - says the resident of Energodar.