Kremlin doesn't consider U.S. embassy in Kyiv to be conversation partner on issue of recognition of DPR, LPR documents
MOSCOW. Feb 20 (Interfax) - The Kremlin did not comment on the statement by the U.S. embassy in Kyiv, which has expressed alarm about the recognition by Moscow of the documents of some regions of Donbas.
"I would not like to comment on the statement by the U.S. embassy in Ukraine. It's not our conversation partner," Russian presidential press officer Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday.
Peskov gave a negative answer to the question as to whether Moscow considers the DPR documents it has recognized equal to Ukrainian passports.
"No, it's a document issued de facto. A whole region is in a situation of a tough blockade by their capital, Kyiv. In a situation of this embargo, people cannot update, correct, receive, and restore lost documents. And they are in effect issued documents in this region," Peskov said.
"These actually issued documents will be accepted here [in Russia] for humanitarian reasons," he said.
Peskov said that "these are not documents of an officially recognized state, they were de facto issued on the territory of the region."
He could not say if there will be a collision in connection with the fact that some Russian parliamentarians, who are prohibited from holding passports of other states, received those documents earlier. "It's a legal issue. Some legal decision is probably needed here," Peskov said.
