Moscow gave citizenship 3344 foreigners for participating in the invasion of Ukraine

Since the beginning of 2024, Russia has granted 3344 citizenship to foreigners on the basis of the Decree of Putin, who allowed the passport to issue a Russian invasion of Ukraine and their families to the participants in Ukraine. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk.

The report does not say the wolf whether its statistics concern only the military or their relatives too. Putin allowed to accept the military personnel who have concluded an annual contract with the Russian army or pro -Russian military formations. A similar law was adopted in 2022.

During the war with Ukraine in Russia, laws were also adopted to terminate the citizens of naturalized citizens who refused to take up military registration. In September, the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the implementation of this law.

In addition, the list of grounds on which naturalized citizens can be deprived of a passport was sharply expanded. The wolf said that in the first eight months of 2024, 1117 naturalized Russians lost citizenship.