(15 Jul 2022)
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Melitopol - 14 July 2022
1. Various of residents queuing for Russian passport, residents with passport staff, security guards
2. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Damir Kadyrov, Melitopol resident:
"There will be Russia here, that's why the Ukrainian passport is unsuitable."
3. Residents queuing
4. Russian flag fluttering
5. Exterior of office
6. Guard standing next to entrance
7. Various of residents sitting in office
8. Resident applying for passport
9. Resident being fingerprinted
10. Head of Melitopol's civilian-military administration Yevgeny Balitsky arriving at news conference
11. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Yevgeny Balitsky, head of civilian-military administration of Melitopol:
"In fact, we are not satisfied with the dynamics yet (referring to the number of people getting Russian passports). But these are opportunities we can count on, considering that offices issuing passports are few in number."
12. Various of city centre, Russian flag fluttering
STORYLINE:
Residents in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol on Friday applied for Russian passports amid Moscow's ongoing special military operation in Ukraine.
As part of the application process, applicants were interviewed and fingerprinted at the passport office before they took an oath abiding by the Russian constitution.
The head of Melitopol's Moscow-backed civilian-military administration said he was "not satisfied" yet with the number of applications from the region.
A similar passport office opened in Donetsk earlier in the month.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expanded a fast-track procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians earlier this week.
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