President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was submitting a key draft law to the Verkhovna Rada to introduce the institution of multiple citizenship in Ukraine. This was stated by the President in his address on the Day of Unity of Ukraine.
“Today I am submitting to the Verkhovna Rada a key draft law that will allow the adoption of comprehensive legislative amendments and the introduction of multiple citizenship. And it will allow all ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants from around the world to have our citizenship. Of course, except for citizens of the aggressor country,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted.
As the President emphasized, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine, the multimillion-strong diaspora of Ukrainians around the world has stood up for the interests of our country and has been helping us despite being hundreds and thousands of kilometers away from their homeland.
“Those who collect, find, pack and deliver everything needed for the victory. All those who have not forgotten their roots and do not let the world forget about Ukraine. Everyone who has Ukrainian blood in their veins and a free heart beating in their chest. Ukrainians by origin, who have long proven that they are Ukrainians in spirit. And after many years of waiting, they should finally become Ukrainians by passport. At the legislative level,” he stressed.
According to the Head of State, multiple citizenship will be one of the opportunities to realize the right to be Ukrainian, for which we are now fighting.
“Foreign volunteers who took up arms to defend Ukraine, all those who fight for Ukraine’s freedom as if it were their homeland. And Ukraine will become such for them. For everyone who can feel that “being in Ukraine” means “being at home.” Not as tourists, but as citizens. Citizens of a great, united, single Ukraine,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy added.
Source – President of Ukraine