Some Russians have reportedly embarked on a new desperate gambit to flee the country: buying “Ukrainian citizenship” online. The asking price was set at 80,000 rubles, or about $1,250.
on Wednesday, has apparently been unfolding in brazen fashion on the website Avito.ru, a marketplace similar to Ebay. One listing for “Ukrainian citizenship” promised that the passport would allow buyers to more easily cross European borders, Mozhem Obyasnit reports.
“The demand is not big, but it’s there,” the anonymous seller of Ukrainian passports was quoted telling Mozhem Obyasnit. “Forms and equipment for issuing biometric passports were most likely stolen from the Kherson region. But the Ukrainian government recorded the numbers of the lost passport forms and provided them to European governments, so these passports will not work,” the source, who works in the Kherson administration, was quoted saying.
It was not clear how many such “passports” were sold, or if any customers have managed to use them to travel to other countries. Ukrainians have been allowed visa-free travel within the European Union’s Schengen Area since 2017, and some operators began offering free travel by train, bus, and plane after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February.
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