Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced that the Ukrainian government approved a draft law establishing criminal liability for civil servants who obtain Russian passports and coerce Ukrainian citizens in occupied territories into accepting Russian citizenship.

The Cabinet of Ministers approved a draft law on criminal liability for forced Russian passportisation in occupied territories.

Civil servants who receive an enemy passport face imprisonment for 10 to 15 years.

Propaganda of enemy citizenship is punished with imprisonment for 5 to 8 years.

Forcing Ukrainian citizens to obtain a Russian passport entails deprivation of liberty for 8 to 12 years.

Creating conditions where failure to obtain a Russian passport reduces rights leads to 8 to 12 years of imprisonment.

The Kyiv Independent and other media outlets are calling on authorities to identify the perpetrators who ordered the murder of Georgiy Gongadze and clarify the alleged complicity of ex-president Leonid Kuchma.

The investigation into those who ordered the murder of Pavlo Sheremet is still ongoing as of September 2022.

Journalist Vadym Komarov was beaten in Cherkasy on May 4, 2019, and died after 46 days; the crime remains unsolved.

A draft law on de-occupied territories is being prepared in Ukraine, which may include criminal responsibility for obtaining Russian passports.

SBI opened criminal proceedings on the fact of a traffic accident that occurred in the center of Kyiv on September 14 involving President Zelensky's car.