Russia (bbabo.net) - The Kremlin does not consider the practice of granting Russian citizenship to residents of the LPR and DPR a violation of the Minsk agreements, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

"No, this practice is not a violation of the Minsk agreements," he said and referred the doubters to the source. “It is enough just to read this short and extremely specific text at least once, so these reproaches are untenable,” Peskov said.

He also recalled that the residents of Donbass are experiencing "extreme social problems" due to the fact that Ukraine does not provide them with "social services, financial services, and so on and so forth."

"And therefore, in fact, Russia, for humanitarian reasons, adheres to this practice of issuing passports," the Kremlin spokesman explained.

He added that not only residents of the south-east of Ukraine are accepted for citizenship of the Russian Federation, but also representatives of "the most, very different countries of the world." "And this practice is quite common," Dmitry Peskov stressed.

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