These passports are invalid and should not be recognized by the international community.

By PETER LEONARD, Associated Press 

Updated 10:04 pm, Sunday, May 11, 2014

 

An elderly man (click here) brandishes his passport at the camera, with it's cover bearing a former Soviet Union sign, near to barricades at the Ukrainian regional office of the Security Service ahead of the regional referendum in the eastern Ukraine city of Luhansk on Saturday May 10, 2014. The Sunday ballots seek approval for declaring so-called sovereign people’s republics in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where pro-Russia insurgents have seized government buildings and clashed with police and Ukrainian troops. Photo: Igor Golovniov, AP 

These passports were issued after deaths in Ukraine, including Crimea. They are illegitimate. The only passports from the Ukraine has to be issued by that government.