The government of Ukraine is not ready to the new rules about crossing the Russian-Ukrainian border for citizens of Russia. This was announced on Monday, August 28, by the official representative of the Department of Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Vasily Kirilich. However, this does not mean that such changes will not be introduced in the foreseeable future, the diplomat.

"I do not have information about any changes in the existing rules for crossing the state border by Russian citizens. There is a working out and modeling of those changes that were announced by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council and are planned to be introduced from January 1, 2018, "Kirilich told the Ukrainian edition of" Vesti ".

In other words, the idea of ??introduction from January 1, 2018. Biometric control of Russians wishing to enter the territory of Nezalezhnaya, has not gone anywhere. Information about this flowed into the Network last week. The media wrote that from the new year only those Russians who have a biometric passport and can fill out an application on the website of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry will be able to cross the Ukrainian border. And fill it supposedly can only be in Ukrainian or English.

The Russian Foreign Ministry did not comment on these reports, pointing out that recently a lot of various initiatives have been heard from Kiev, which often do not pour into anything and react senselessly to everyone.

Maria Zakharova, as always, was right. On Monday, August 28, Ukrainian "Vesti" referring to their own sources reported that biometrics are biometrics, but the questionnaires in English are media fictions.

Earlier, Kiev stated the need for the introduction of enhanced control over the crossing of the Russian-Ukrainian border in connection with the ongoing conflict in Donbass.