Fought in the Donbass citizens of foreign countries asked Poroshenko Ukrainian citizenship
Under walls of presidential administration of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko held a meeting a few dozen foreigners who fought in the Donbass, With the requirement to give them the citizenship of Ukraine. at the rally gathered about 30 people in uniform, people in civilian clothes. The organizers say that here men from Russia, Moldova and Belarus, they require the head of Ukraine has provided them with Ukrainian citizenship because they fought in the Donbass on the side of Kiev, reports television channel " 112 Ukraine ". they say that they have been released from the presidential administration, was given a phone number to contact to obtain citizenship, but they stayed and say that they do not believe the promises, because he had heard them before. One of the founders of the action Artem Shirobokov told that before several times already preparing the documents for citizenship, but " no response from the authorities there ". To Express the support of foreigners came and the Ukrainian military. Citizens of foreign countries who fought in the Donbass on the side of Kiev, not for the first time require citizenship before the administration Poroshenko. In the last month of the summer participating in special operations in the Donbass on the side of Kiev citizens of foreign countries have come to the building of the state migration service of Ukraine to require Ukrainian citizenship. In the early winter of last year the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking in Parliament, promised to provide Ukrainian citizenship to all the volunteers who are involved in special operations in the Donbass. Since mid-April last year, the Kiev authorities carried out in the East of Ukraine "special operation" to suppress the protest movement in the Donbass. Refers to a large number of dead and wounded among the civilian population and the destruction of houses and infrastructure. According to the UN at the end of July, victims of the conflict in the East of Ukraine became more than 6, 8 thousand People, at least 17 thousand has Been damaged health.