mo4ch:>Issuing Russian passports to Eastern Ukrainian residents purely humanitarian act – Lavrov | Mo4ch News

The blockade by Ukraine has made many people in eastern Ukraine essentially “stateless” and it was Moscow’s duty to support them by facilitating the issuing of Russian IDs, Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, has said.Kiev’s military campaign against the Donetsk and Lugansk Regions in eastern Ukraine placed the locals “in unbearable living conditions, cut off from everything: social benefits, pensions, salaries, national financing banking services, education and health, deprived of electoral rights,” Lavrov said in an interview with the 'Argumenty i Fakty' weekly.The Ukrainian authorities “made the inhabitants of these areas de facto stateless. In this situation, our duty was to support these people,” he added.Obtaining Russian passports would allow the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk to solve the most pressing problems like traveling freely, having access to medical, educational and banking services, the FM explained.He clarified that there’s an exception in the Russia…