The ban on three years is imposed because of the officer's siege of the Crimea occupied by Russia through the border crossing points closed by the government of Ukraine. As reported on Wednesday, December 20, the Speaker of the State Border Service of Ukraine Oleg Slobodyan, Russian officers left Ukraine last night.

The registration took place at the checkpoint "Goptovka" in the Kharkiv region. At registration the lieutenant colonel who visited temporarily occupied Crimea.

He himself confirmed that he entered the peninsula in April 2017 via the temporarily closed "Simferopol" checkpoint, "Slobodyan said, adding that on the basis of the current legislation of Ukraine the border service officers closed the entrance of the Russian officer to Ukraine for three years.

Recall, on December 18, the Russian military from the Joint Center for Coordination and Control in the Donbass left the territory of the so-called "Donetsk People's Republic".

As reported URA-Inform, Russia said that the activities of the Russian representation in the Joint Center for control and coordination of the ceasefire and stabilization on the contact line of the parties in the Donbass became impossible, since Ukraine introduced biometric control.