Border guards announced the entry into Russia of half a million residents of the DPR and LPR in three months
During the period from April to June, 507,000 of their citizens entered the border in Russia from the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics (LPR and DPR): 293,000 and 214,000 people, respectively, wrote RBC with reference to the data of the Border Service of the FSB. For the first time, she published the statistics of movement through the transit of Russia from the LPR and the DPR. During the same period, 412,000 people died on the territory of the republics of Russian citizens.
Prior to this, the FSB found information about crossing the border under the heading “Ukraine”. April – June – the first full quarter after Russia recognized the independence of the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. It happened on February 21st.
In total, in June, 3.59 million foreigners entered Russia, counted by the FSB. The LPR and DPR account for more than 14% of border crossings. A little over 657,000 people arrived from Ukraine in the second quarter. In a TASS source in law enforcement agencies spokethat since February 18, more than 2 million people have come to Russia from Ukraine, the LPR and the DPR, of which 323,000 are children. Half of the arrivals are citizens of the DPR and LPR, according to a TASS source.
Since 2019, citizens of the LPR and DPR can obtain Russian citizenship under a simplified procedure. This may be related to the trips of Russians to the Donbass: they could have been made by people from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, RBC suggested.
In the second quarter of the year, Russians received 4.99 million approximations: this is 28% more than in the first quarter of 2022, and 21% more than in the same quarter of 2021, selected by RBC from FSB data. A sharply observed period in the state, which belongs to the list of “unfriendly”. For example, 39 people left for the United States, a year ago there were 36,700 in the second quarter, according to the FSB data. The number of trips to the EU countries was recorded for the year by 36%, up to 437,000. Due to the end of air communication with Europe, the number of trips of Russians to neighboring EU countries increased: to Lithuania by 14.7% yoy, to Finland by 41.7 %. , to Estonia – by 3.6 times.
Since July 15, Russia has lifted the restriction on leaving the country through ground restrictions. Through the border with Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland, Russians can enter the EU directly from Russia. However, the measures taken by these countries do not satisfy the flow of Russians and prohibit the issuance of a wide visa to them. Estonia and Latvia have already done this, to a large extent Finland has done the required visas. The European Commission has stated that EU rules do not allow for the complete elimination of entry permits. Against arose and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.