A decision to ban a foreign citizen's entry into Ukraine is taken individually for each person.
Editor-in-chief of the Voice of Islam (golosislama.com) media project Dmitry Hamza Chernomorchenko, a Russian citizen seeking Ukrainian citizenship, has been refused entry into Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed Decree No. 256/2017 to enact a decision taken by the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) on July 10 to strengthen control over entry into Ukraine, departure of foreigners and stateless persons from Ukraine, their compliance with the rules of stay in Ukrainian territory, the presidential press service has reported.
The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine will deny former head of the Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili, whose acquired Ukrainian citizenship was earlier revoked, crossing the Ukrainian border if he arrives at the checkpoint, according to the border guard service's press secretary Oleh Slobodyan.
On 30 June 2017, EU ambassadors approved the draft regulations of the European Union on the creation of an automatic system, which will register entry, exit and refusal of entry information of third country nationals crossing the external borders of the Schengen area, according to press service of the EU Council.
Ukraine's State Border Service has reported that 1,471 people from Russia were refused entry into Ukraine in January-May 2017, according to the Ukrainian news portal Apostrophe.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine has verified reports about the visit of politicians from the European Union and other countries to Russian-occupied Crimea at the occupying authorities' invitation to "celebrate" the third anniversary of the Crimean pseudo-referendum, SBU press secretary Olena Hitlyanska wrote on Facebook.