Russians are weaponizing passports in occupied Ukraine—U.K. intel

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Ukrainian politician Lyudmila Denisova said weeks into the war that Ukrainian citizens were having their passports seized and replaced with Russian ones.

, and foreign governments, including the United States, said the move was illegitimate.

Denisova, the Ukrainian Parliament's former commissioner for human rights, made the claims during an appearance on Russian-language Prague-based TV channel Nastoyashcheye Vremya . The British defense ministry said on Monday that residents in Kherson have been warned that those who have not accepted a Russian passport by June 1 will be"deported" and their property seized.

 

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