Russia prohibits Ukrainians from leaving occupied regions without its passport – National Resistance Center

Russian invaders forbid Ukrainians who have not received its passport to leave the occupied territories.

This is part of compulsory passportization, National Resistance Center reports.

Russians are holding local residents as hostages and creating conditions when life without their passport is impossible.

Without a Russian passport, a Ukrainian at every checkpoint of the occupiers is guaranteed an in-depth check or even detention. Free movement in the region is actually prohibited.

The presence of enemy's passport in most cases exempts from such problems. Therefore, it is almost impossible to leave the region with a Ukrainian passport when traveling to the Russian Federation, the statement says.

The invaders closed the exit to free Ukraine last year.

Russian forces attempt to implement the plan of forced passportization of residents in temporarily occupied regions. They issued a new tool to encourage the residents to obtain enemy passports. Russians guarantee "insurance" certificates for the purchase of housing on the aggressor's territory.

In the occupied territories of southern Ukraine, the Russian "mobile groups" that hand out passports are operating, resorting to violence to impose Russian passports on Ukrainians.