About 950 thousand residents of Donbass have applied for Russian citizenship, another 770 thousand people have already received it, said State Duma deputy from the Rostov region Viktor Vodolatsky.
According to him, 775 thousand citizens of the Russian Federation live on the territory of the DPR and LPR. As writes TASS with reference to the deputy, another 170 thousand people are undergoing the procedure for obtaining citizenship.
According to the Acting Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation Alexander Chupriyan, due to the aggravation of the conflict in the DPR and LPR, about 40 thousand people have already arrived in Russia. So far, they are accepted by two regions – the Rostov and Voronezh regions.
