Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday a decision to give residents o...
Men walk past a banner, which reads"We were born in DPR ! DPR is five years old", in a street in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk, Ukraine April 25, 2019. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko
Speaking to reporters at the end of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Putin said that Poland, Romania and Hungary grant citizenship to their own ethnic kin living outside their borders.“How are Russians in Ukraine worse than Romanians, Poles or Hungarians? I don’t see anything unusual here.”
Rebellions broke out against Ukrainian government rule in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014. Moscow provided military help for the separatists, according to evidence gathered by Reuters, although Russian officials have denied providing material support.Five years of war in Ukraine’s east have killed 13,000 people despite a notional ceasefire signed in 2015.
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