Ukraine risks being drawn into another conflict with European partners
The Czech Republic is considering the option of issuing its passports to the population of the former territories of Czechoslovakia.
The head of the Zakarpattia region, Gennady Moskal, announced this on air on TV channel 112, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the official, a number of states are already laying claim to the population of Western Ukraine.
“Now we will have series No. 2, because based on the fact that we are communicating and monitoring what the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Poland are writing about Transcarpathia, there is a question of giving the former territories of Czechoslovakia... The Czech Republic is already raising the question: “Why not, why not provide dual citizenship to Transcarpathia, after all, this was our land,” said Moskal.
As a reminder, a new crisis erupted in relations between Ukraine and Hungary last week . It was sparked by a video of a ceremony for residents of Transcarpathia to receive Hungarian citizenship, which took place at the consulate in Berehove. In the video, the consul urged Transcarpathians to conceal their citizenship from the Ukrainian authorities.
Ukrainian diplomat Oleh Voloshin stated that if Ukraine were poorer than Hungary, even Ukrainians in Transcarpathia would support the region's secession.
Ukraine risks being drawn into another conflict with its European partners.