The UK aims to implement a “relentless Russification policy” in the occupied territories in Ukraine

The British Intelligence Service this Monday has pointed to the “relentless policy of Russification” of the occupied territories in Ukraine within the framework of the invasion launched in February 2022 and has warned that Moscow’s goal of achieving integration of the region is “irreversible”. . Therefore, they recall that the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs estimates that there are almost 2.8 million residents in the region and who now have Russian passports, citizens who are allowed to access social services and health services on condition that they accept this. documentation. Russian President Vladimir Putin himself indicated in April 2023 that residents of these regions who refuse passports “will become foreigners or stateless persons,” with permission to stay in the region only until July 1, 2024.” “There is a realistic possibility that anyone in the region temporarily occupied territories who do not have a Russian passport as of that date will be deported or risk detention,” they said. “Recent rhetoric from the vice-president of the National Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, suggests that these people could be deported to remote areas of Russia,” they warned, according to a statement published by the British Home Office via its online account . Eurasian social state.

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