Dozens of Crimea residents have applied for a Russian passport
Military personnel and residents of Crimea rushed today to apply for the passports of the Russian Federation, in order to stop being Ukrainians Nationals, as Moscow tightens its grip on the peninsula of the Black Sea it took from Kiev.
In Perevalnoye, a small village northeast of Simferopol, where there is a military base and family houses of military personnel, queues of people who wanted to submit a request to obtain Russian passports were formed. "It's over. They tore the country. For us locals there is nothing else to think about" a woman said through Reuters as she walked to submit her application. "We have lived here all our lives. With my husband we were working at the base, our children attend school here. Where should we go? Kiev has already left us, now we don't belong to Ukraine". By noon about 70 families had applied for obtaining Russian passports.