Russian passports being issued in Berdyansk

(12 Aug 2022)
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++PLEASE NOTE: AP IS WORKING IN BERDYANSK AS PART OF A PRESS TOUR ORGANISED BY THE RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY++
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Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine - 11 August 2022
1. Various of people outside the Interior Ministry office to get Russian citizenship
2. Mid of representative of the Interior Ministry office addressing people who are receiving Russian passports
UPSOUND (Russian) (Interior Office Representative: "Are you receiving citizenship of the Russian Federation voluntarily?")
"Yes."
(Interior Office Representative: "Without pressure?")
"Yes."
3. Close of seal of the Russian Federation and portrait of Russian President Vladimir Putin hanging on the wall
4. Mid of people reading oath with Russian anthem playing
5. Mid of Russian passports being handed out
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nadezhda Vycheva, local resident:
"I will tell you honestly, I am Ukrainian from top to toe. Well, it means that God had decided so (for her to get Russian passport). Sorry, I cannot say anything more."
7. Tilt down from poster with woman holding Russian passport to a woman filling out an application
8. Close of application being filled out
9. Mid of people inside the office
10. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Olga Sum, Mariupol resident:
"My whole family has decided (to take Russian passports) who are here with me today. We hope to manage it within a day and return tomorrow to Mariupol to work."
(Reporter: "Are you denouncing Ukrainian citizenship?")
Sum: "Not for the time being."
11. Close of poster reading (Russian) "We are one nation"
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Baranenko, Head of migration service of the Interior Ministry of Berdyansk and Zaporizhzhia region:
"At the first office 6,200 applications for obtaining Russian citizenship have been received. This is from 12 June 2022. At the second office we have received 1,300 applications."
13. Various of Berdyansk streets
14. Wide of Azov Sea shore
15. Close of waves
STORYLINE:
Some residents in Berdyansk in Ukraine have been issued with Russian passports.
Berdyansk police department's migration service said about 2,500 Ukrainian citizens have received Russian passports since June, with another 5,000 waiting to be naturalized.
Associated Press video journalists on a tour organized by the Russian Defense Ministry witnessed the process of granting Russian citizenship on Thursday.
Among them was Nadezhda Vycheva, a pensioner who said she is Ukrainian "from top to toe," but it was "God's will" that she is taking Russian citizenship.
Applications for Russian citizenship in occupied Berdyansk started on 12 June.
According to Vasily Baranenko, head of the migration service, it takes up to a month to get Russian citizenship.
Olga Sum arrived in Berdyansk from Mariupol with her family to get Russian citizenship. She said she is not denouncing her Ukrainian citizenship.
Russian troops occupied Berdyansk, the city of 90,000 residents, in February 2022.
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