President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that Ukrainians who have Russian citizenship should not have Ukrainian citizenship, adding: "let them live in Russia."
"Our task is that all people who today have dual or triple citizenship, including the citizenship of the Russian Federation and who have a political or spiritual influence on our state - that all these people necessarily have one citizenship - the Russian Federation, if they also have it. I I think they should live with this citizenship in the respective state. I think it's absolutely fair," Zelenskyi said at a press conference with the heads of Lithuania and Poland in Lviv on Wednesday.
This is how he answered the press's question about what decisions to expect regarding the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship against the background of the recent suspension of the citizenship of four people's deputies of Ukraine, including Viktor Medvedchuk, Taras Kozak, Andriy Derkach and Renat Kuzmin.
Answering the question on what basis the procedure for depriving the citizenship of the specified persons took place, he noted that "some of the specified persons were deprived of it precisely because of the presence of citizenship of other states in accordance with the legislation and in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine."
At the same time, he noted that he cannot divulge all the details by which the SSU ensures security in Ukraine.