President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy dismissed an offer by Vladimir Putin to provide passports to Ukrainians, and pledged instead to grant citizenship to Russians who “suffer” under the Kremlin’s rule.On Saturday the Russian president said in Beijing that Moscow was considering plans to make it easier for all Ukrainians to obtain Russian citizenship, after it earlier moved to grant passports in the country’s separatist east.“We are considering whether to grant Ukrainian citizens our citizenship using a simplified procedure,” Putin told journalists.Kyiv has been fighting Moscow-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine since 2014 in a war that has killed 13,000.Zelenskiy, a comedian who won …read more
Source: Gulf times
