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Russia threatens Ukrainians who don't take passports with deportation
2023-07-22
[Kyiv Independent] Russian occupation authorities in a village of Kherson Oblast forced residents to take Russian passports, threatening them with deportation to Russia, the National Resistance Center reported on July 20. "On the left-bank side of Kherson Oblast, the occupation police conducted a raid on residents of the village Hornostaivka," the Center informed.

"Russians took all their fingerprints and forced them to write an application to obtain an enemy passport, saying that otherwise they will be deported to the Russian Federation."
To the Russian Far East, not Moscow., to be replaced by Russian colonists.
Along the lines of Siberia? How traditional.
Russian forces took much of Kherson Oblast in the early days of the full-scale war. While Ukrainian troops liberated the capital Kherson and all territory on the western bank of the Dnipro River, Moscow continues to hold the eastern bank.

Russia is coercing residents of the occupied territories of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk, and Donetsk oblasts to accept Russian passports as part of the efforts to integrate occupied territories and the local population.
Then they can be forcibly drafted and replaced by Russian colonists. DNR and LPR have run out of military age men.
Didn’t Russia just announce they’ll be drafting men up to age 70?
Russia is reportedly withholding medical assistance and threatening mobilization to those who refuse to accept the Russian documents.

During the massive flooding of the Kherson Oblast following the breach of the Kakhovka dam, Russia allowed evacuations only to Russian passport holders, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported.

Under Putin's executive order, anyone living in the occupied territories who refuses to accept Russian citizenship will be considered a foreigner and could face deportation starting on July 1, 2024.
Who knows? By then perhaps the horse will have learnt to sing.
Related:
Kherson Oblast: 2023-04-16 Over the past day, the occupiers shelled nine Ukrainian regions, OVA
Kherson Oblast: 2023-04-09 Russians killed a resident of Donetsk region, there are victims in Kharkiv region and Kherson region, - OVA
Kherson Oblast: 2023-03-05 Invaders shelled 8 regions, 5 civilians were killed
Posted by:Enver Slager8035

#4  Border guards on both sides are being left out to dry. In other news Putin's food tasters seem to have great success so far in keeping from being poisoned.

Except for that one that died, but we're pretty sure he was a wrecker and hoarder.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2023-07-22 18:57  

#3  ^1. It sounds like you take a Russian passport or they give you the Stalin treatment - relocation to East nowhere while your town gets new residents from wherever your destination is. I don’t think your summer clothes in your new digs.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-07-22 18:41  

#2  Border guards on both sides are being left out to dry. In other news Putin's food tasters seem to have great success so far in keeping from being poisoned.
Posted by: jpal   2023-07-22 18:12  

#1  I'm too lazy to read the article. Are they threatening to deport them to Russia or to Ukraine? And which is worse?
Posted by: SteveS   2023-07-22 17:01  

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