Estonia Refuses to Recognize Russian Passports Issued in Donetsk and Luhansk

Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu said that the country decided not to recognize Russian passports issued to residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. According to him this decision came in response to a decree signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin which let the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk regions were to be granted Russian citizenship under a simplified procedure. / Putin signed a decree on April 24. According to the document, the period of consideration of the request by the Russian authorities should not exceed three months. In the first days in the self-proclaimed republics there were queues of those wishing to change citizenship. According to News.ru, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina Olexander Levchenko offered his option to resolve the situation in Donbass. News.ru