What happened in Ukraine-related politics on 23 June 2025?
A look back at the political developments reported in the days leading up to 23 June 2025, from citizenship law to a genocide recognition.
What had Ukraine-related politics produced by 23 June 2025? Several developments reported in the preceding days stood out.
On 18 June 2025, the parliament of Ukraine approved a law to allow multiple citizenship for Ukrainians. The measure was presented as an attempt to ease a demographic crisis caused by the Russian invasion.
On 20 June 2025, the parliament of the Netherlands recognised as genocide the deportation of the Crimean Tatars carried out by the Soviet Union in 1944. That deportation took place from 18 to 20 May 1944 and was supervised by Lavrentiy Beria, then chief of Soviet state security, on the orders of Joseph Stalin. At least 191,044 Crimean Tatars were deported by cattle train from Crimea to the Uzbek SSR, several thousand kilometres away.
On 21 June 2025, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko pardoned several opposition figures, including opposition leader Siarhei Tsikhanouski. The pardons followed a deal brokered by U.S. special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
