Now not a single state official from the list will be able to cross the state border with a non-state purpose. Even if he is a woman whose child is abroad.

Recall that the reason for such a tough decision by the National Security and Defense Council and the President of Ukraine was, in particular, the New Year's vacation of the former Deputy Prosecutor General of Ukraine Oleksiy Symonenko.

He went with his family to rest in Spanish Marbella, despite the ban of the President of the country to politicians and officials to rest abroad during the war.

Moreover, as UP journalist Mikhail Tkach found out, Simonenko crossed the border in the car of the Grand Hotel holding, which belongs to the wife of a very famous Lviv businessman and deputy Grigory Kozlovsky. Interestingly, the driver of the car also crossed the border without hindrance..

Upon arrival, Simonenko had to write a letter of resignation against the background of personnel rotations as part of a major corruption scandal..

And on January 23, by his decree, President Zelensky approved a list of officials who are prohibited from traveling abroad.

It concerns:.

members of the Cabinet of Ministers, first deputies and deputy ministers, heads.

central executive authorities, their first deputies and deputies,.

Head of the Office of the President and his deputies, heads of other.

subsidiary bodies and services formed by the President, and their deputies,.

head of the SBU, his first deputy and deputies,.

chairman and members of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting,.

chairman and members of the Accounts Chamber,.

chairmen and members of the CEC, chairmen and members of other state collegiate bodies,.

Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, his first deputies and deputies,.

people's deputies,.

the authorized Verkhovna Rada and its representatives,.

the head of the National Bank, his first deputy and deputies,.

Permanent Representative of the President in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and his deputies,.

chairmen of local state administrations, their first deputies and deputies,.

judges of the Constitutional Court, judges, prosecutors, heads of other state bodies and their deputies,.

as well as heads of structural divisions of state bodies,.

employees booked for the period of mobilization and wartime by state authorities, other state bodies, local governments.

State officials who, saving their children from the horrors of the war, took them abroad were automatically included in the list of people not allowed to leave the country.. Presidential decree has become an insurmountable wall between children and their mothers.

Oleksandra Dvoretskaya, an employee of the Ombudsman’s Office of Ukraine, the founder of the human rights center “Diya” (she is not alone in this situation), spoke about this on her Facebook page. Her little son is in Germany. Recently she visited him. Here is what Dvoretskaya wrote regarding the presidential decree that has become a wall between mothers and their children:.

“I am returning from my son, who is in Germany, under a loud decision to ban the heads of structural divisions in the civil service from leaving Ukraine. That is, the restrictions apply to me, the head of the department.

I planned my next trip for my son's birthday in April.. Looks like I should quit? What is this new civil service reform?

I don’t know how top officials will decide this, but it’s unpleasant that I am responsible for major passes and corrupt holidays in Spain.

And in the morning I traveled 2 hours to Berlin, another 10 hours by train to Przemysl, I expect 3 hours and another 11 hours for a train to Kyiv, and so in both directions on an earned vacation to see the child at least for 3 days. For how difficult it is to see a son only in the phone screen. And how difficult it is for him to organize life and security in Kyiv and work for himself at the same time”.

Moms should at least sometimes hug their children, because children, cut off from their parents, live only for one thing - expectation.. But it turned out that women civil servants subject to the presidential decree will be forced to quit, as a priori they will make a choice in favor of children.

Moreover, another problem will automatically arise - with the staff of state institutions and services..

The decision of the SSSBO, approved by presidential decree, clearly needs to be amended, taking into account that women are employees of state institutions, and also mothers..

Recall that on January 23, in his evening address, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky stated the following: " This applies to law enforcement officers, people's deputies, prosecutors and all those who should work for the state and in the state.. If they want to rest now, they will rest outside the state service. Officials will no longer be able to travel abroad on vacation or for any other non-state purpose"

The next day, the decision of the National Security and Defense Council was already adopted.