TheVoiceOfJoyce After 500+ days of war, Moscow can claim they’ve forcibly given out 3 million passports to Ukrainians. 3 million out of 44 million were forced to accept Russian citizenship or lose all humanitarian aid and face deportation to Russia. Putin never cared about winning the hearts and minds of the Ukrainians. He wanted to conquer them, perhaps to enrich himself? Will the World react to Putin’s war crimes? How long before Russian soldiers are removed from Ukrainian land?

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www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/03/russia-forcing-ukrainian-passports-us-report

Yale University researchers found that residents of the Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions were being targeted by a systematic effort to strip them of Ukrainian identity.

Ukrainians who do not seek Russian citizenship “are subjected to threats, intimidation, restrictions on humanitarian aid and basic necessities, and possible detention or deportation, all designed to force them to become Russian citizens,” the report said.

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Russia’s actions were “classic war crimes in the sense that they are restricting or limiting through this process people’s ability to access critical services and resources that Russia is required to allow all people to access, such as healthcare, and humanitarian systems,” Nathaniel Raymond, the executive director of Yale School of Public Health, told CNN.

Moscow claims to have given Russian passports to more than 3 million Ukrainians since 2014, after the annexation of Crimea and occupation of Ukrainian territories since the launch of its full-scale invasion in 2022.

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