Ukraine must deal with Russia from a position of strength to avoid a "bad peace" because it is "much more dangerous" to show Vladimir Putin weakness than make him concessions, Estonia’s prime minister has said. The Russian order came on the heels of a 2019 decree that allowed the same fast-track procedure for residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, eastern Ukraine's breakaway regions. Ukraine's foreign ministry said the initiative was further evidence of Moscow's "criminal" war goals, namely the integration of regions held by Moscow's army "into Russia's legal, political and economic field." Vladimir Putin earlier signed a decree simplifying the procedure to get a Russian passport for residents of the southern Ukrainian regions of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson. is a flagrant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as norms and principles of international humanitarian law," the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in a statement. Moscow's plan to make it easier for Ukrainians living in Russian-controlled regions of Ukraine to receive Russian citizenship violates international law, Kyiv said today, accusing the Kremlin of "criminal" behaviour. The pension increase comes into effect from June 1, while the minimum wage hike kicks in on July 1. His comments ignored the fact that rising inflation in Western economies is in part a direct consequence of Russia's war in Ukraine, which has driven up prices for energy and food around the world. "Because in countries that aren't conducting any operations - say, overseas, in North America, in Europe - inflation is comparable and, if you look at the structure of their economies, even more than ours." "When I say 'difficult', it doesn't mean all these difficulties are connected to the special military operation," Putin told a televised meeting of the State Council in Moscow. With annual inflation near 18 per cent last month, the Kremlin leader acknowledged that 2022 would be a "difficult" year for the Russian economy. President Vladimir Putin ordered 10 per cent rises in pensions and the minimum wage to cushion Russians from inflation, but denied the country's economic problems were all linked to the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian foreign ministry said in a statement that the issuing of passports was “a flagrant violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as norms and principles of international humanitarian law". In Kherson, the Ukrainian governor has been ousted and a military-civilian administration said earlier this month that it plans to ask Putin to incorporate it into Russia by the end of the year.
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Russia claimed full control of the Kherson region, north of Crimea, in mid-March, and holds parts of the Zaporizhzhia region to the north-east. Putin's move extends a scheme which was already available to residents of areas controlled by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where Moscow has issued around 800,000 passports since 2019. The decree marks a further step towards the "Russification" of the two southern regions, where Moscow's troops have established a land bridge between Russia and the Crimean peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. Vladimir Putin has signed a decree simplifying the process for residents of Ukraine's occupied Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions to acquire Russian citizenship and passports.
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