{"id":42911,"date":"2022-07-21T10:20:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=42911"},"modified":"2022-07-21T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T07:20:48","slug":"vereshchuk-obtaining-a-passport-of-an-aggressor-state-by-a-ukrainian-citizen-should-be-considered-a-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=42911","title":{"rendered":"Vereshchuk: obtaining a passport of an aggressor state by a Ukrainian citizen should be considered a crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deputy Prime Minister-Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, said that Ukraine should take a tougher stance on Ukrainians receiving Russian passports and treat it as a crime.\u00a0<strong>She wrote about this in Telegram, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV. UkraineGaten . 21. \u00a0July . 2022 | World News .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vereshchuk noted that the Russians are afraid of imminent counterattacks by Ukraine and want to use the residents of the temporarily occupied territories as human shields.&nbsp;She added that the invaders are in a hurry to issue Russian passports to Ukrainians and hold &#8220;referendums&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There should be no illusions here: passports and &#8216;referendums&#8217; are Russian weapons, more dangerous than missiles. If we really want to oppose the occupation, we should take a clearer and tougher position on obtaining the passports of the occupiers and voting in their &#8216;referendums&#8217; &#8220;. We must say clearly: this is a crime against our state!&#8221;&nbsp;&#8211; emphasized Vereshchuk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also noted that there may be very rare exceptions, for example, when Ukrainians receive Russian passports in order to move to the territory controlled by the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But fundamentally, any receipt by a Ukrainian citizen (regardless of the motives) of the passport of the aggressor state should be considered a crime. We must convey this to the citizens who are currently under temporary occupation. I understand that this is harsh, but it is about the existence of the Ukrainian state &#8220;, Vereshchuk remarked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Ukrgate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Prime Minister-Minister for Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine, Iryna Vereshchuk, said that Ukraine should take a tougher stance on Ukrainians receiving Russian passports and treat it as a crime.\u00a0She wrote about this in Telegram, KYIV. UkraineGaten . 21. \u00a0July . 2022 | World News .\u00a0 Details Vereshchuk noted that the Russians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":42912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11447,16],"tags":[813,996,2399,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-42911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-ukraine-news","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42921,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42911\/revisions\/42921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}