That strategy was first used at the time of the 2008 war in Georgia, if not before, when it became clear that Russia had widely distributed passports to residents in Abkhazia and Ossetia. Those two territories, which subsequently became officially independent, were de facto reannexed by Russia. There were rumours circulating at that time that passports were also being distributed in the Crimea. Taras can certainly speak to that.
In the Crimea, there were obviously Russian personnel present. In Sebastopol, all this was legal. Russia has a sort of extraterritorial base there. With respect to dual citizenship, Ukraine stated its refusal very clearly at the time of independence, which means that our Canadian-Ukrainian colleagues cannot obtain Ukrainian nationality without losing their Canadian nationality. It is important we do not start making distinctions, precisely to prevent the Russian government from someday using the argument that it is using today. As I have already said, this is a two-sided argument, that is, it wants to protect its citizens, who are, in principle, relatively few, and also its compatriots, but who are those compatriots? We get into a legal limbo there. There are no clear numbers on that because it is illegal.