Russians are failing in efforts to give out Russian passports to Ukrainians in the occupied territories: only 1% of population has taken a passport so far

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO – MONDAY, 1 AUGUST 2022, 15:16

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In the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine, Russians are threatening to introduce the ruble as the new local currency, and have achieved a critically low passportization percentage.

Source: National Resistance Centre, the website of the Special Operation Forces

Details: In the south of Ukraine, Russians are distributing fake receipts that urge Ukrainians to pay for public utilities in rubles. The majority of locals realise that these receipts have no legal grounds, so Russians resort to threats.

In Kherson, occupation authorities held a meeting with heads of housing cooperatives and threatened them with "preventive measures" if the residents won’t pay in rubles for the sake of "Russia’s interests".

Quote: "Yet such meetings bore no results. Despite the occupiers’ efforts, the majority of payments are still made in hryvnias, especially in the private sector which almost exclusively accepts payments in hryvnias.

The situation with passportization is the same. Despite the occupiers giving out 10,000 rubles for taking a Russian passport, for now, only roughly 10,000 residents of the occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts have taken these passports, which corresponds to around 1% of the adult population."

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