The so-called "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR") claims that 957 foreigners from more than 30 countries have already received "passports" of "DPR" citizens, according to Information Resistance, a Ukrainian non-governmental project on information security.
Speaker for the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine Oleh Slobodyan says almost 15,500 Russian citizens have crossed the Ukrainian border since the beginning of 2018 after a new biometric data monitoring system was launched, according to TV Channel 112 Ukraine.
Mayor of the city of Dobropillia in Donetsk region Andriy Aksyonov turned out to be a citizen of Russia, according to Ukrainian MP for the Solidarnist ("Solidarity") party of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc Dmytro Lubinets.
Former governor of Ukraine's Odesa region and ex-president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili claims his reportedly stolen Ukrainian passport is in the office of the President of Ukraine.
Former chairman of the Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili during his speech in Lviv on Monday has claimed that the Ukrainian border guards did not want to take his travel document for verification or accept his application to the State Migration Service, and then the police allegedly “stole” his passport, which he “left on the bus,” an UNIAN correspondent reports.
The Ecolines bus transportation service has refused to transport Ukrainians with biometric passports heading for Bulgaria under the visa-free regime, according to their relative Olga Lenz, who posted photo proof on Facebook on Sunday, June 25.