Russian PM: 1.5 mln in annexed Ukraine regions have received Russian passports

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Tuesday that almost 1.5 million people in the newly annexed Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson have now received Russian passports.

Russia claimed last September to have annexed the four regions but its forces do not fully control any of them, and the annexations have not been recognised internationally. Moscow also annexed Ukraine's Crimea region in 2014.