This is stated in the report of the Chairman of the State Migration Service of Ukraine Maxim Sokolyuk on the results of the work of the department in 2017.

It should be noted that the SMS began to issue biometric passports of Ukrainian citizens for traveling abroad from 2015.

And already in 2016 the process of issuing passports of Ukrainian citizens in the form of a card with a contactless electronic carrier.

In addition, at the same time, such passports were issued 280,252, and in 2017 - 1,096,824. The specified ID-card is an analogue of the internal Ukrainian passport, however by ID-card it is now possible to visit Turkey.

Recall, as previously reported, "URA-Inform, since the beginning of the year, biometric control at the entrance to Ukraine was 15.5 thousand Russians.