Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday of this week expanded fast-track route to Russian citizenship and made it available for all Ukrainians. Putin’s decree has made the mechanism available to all Ukrainians. Between 2019, when the procedure was first introduced for the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk, and this year, more than 720,000 residents of the rebel-held areas in the two regions “about 18% of the population” have received Russian passports. Is Putin making Ukraine to be part of Russia?

