Just two days after Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defense made her claims, Vladimir Putin signed a decree that gave Ukranians still living in formerly Ukrainian territory a path to Russian citizenship, but that path also came with a major catch .On April 26th, Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Defense accused Russia of trying to destroy her country’s national identity through the forced repopulation of the occupied territories. Hanna Maliar explained that Moscow was attempting to “change the ethnic population of the temporarily occupied territories” and was offering a host of incentives to settlers. Is Putin trying to repopulate annexed territories with Russians ?
