Russian's border guards do not comment on the issue.
The Moldovan parliament has ratified an agreement on readmission with Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs Communications Department, referring to Chairman of the State Migration Service of Ukraine Maksym Sokoliuk.
Since the beginning of 2016, nearly 586,000 retired and elderly people residing in the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine have lost access to their pensions as a result of verification procedures introduced by the Government of Ukraine, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine says that Russian-backed militants of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic ("DPR") were instructed not to let the SMM enter the area, according to an OSCE SMM report.