The United Kingdom Ministry of Defense has denounced that the decree signed last Thursday by the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, which forces Ukrainians residing in the country to “regularize their situation” represents, in fact, an order of covert expulsion.
The decree, which also affects the Ukrainian territory occupied by Moscow, gives those affected until September 10 to accept passports and their Russian citizenship, in what London interprets as an initiative to “force the departure of this population.”
The British Ministry of Defense accuses Putin and the high controls of continuing “applying a rusification policy in the illegally occupied Ukrainian territory, as part of its prolonged efforts to eradicate the culture, identity and condition of the state of Ukraine.”
London also condemns the description “erroneous and illegal” that Russia uses “for the Ukrainian provinces of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporiyia, Jersón and Crimea” that, when describing them as “part of the Russian Federation”, enters “direct contradiction with the recognition declared by Russia of Independence and Sovereignty of Ukraine after the collapse of the union of the union of Ukraine. Soviet, as well as with a broader international recognition of Ukraine. “
The sovereignty of these five occupied lands is expected to be one of the main friction points in the peace conversations that are taking place in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) between the attacker, Russia, and the attacked, Ukraine, with the United States as godfather and interlocutor between two parts that still refuse to share a table.
