Biometric control for foreigners who cross the state border of Ukraine will work from January 1, 2018. This was told by the Speaker of the State Border Service Oleg Slobodyan on the air of the TV channel "1 + 1".

"In the conditions in which Ukraine is now, this practice is fully justified," he said.. According to the border guard, Ukraine has another 6 months to conduct technical training of the process of biometric control.

"As for technical execution, we still have time to work out the mechanism, provide check points with all necessary equipment for working with biometric data, organize a system for storing these data, exchanges and the like," he said..