To stay in the border zone, you now need to have a permit from the State Border Guard Service. Such changes to the border regime were announced by the State Border Guard Service on Friday, UNN reports.
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"From now on, to stay in the border zone, you must have a permit from the State Border Guard Service," the statement reads.
The amendments stipulate that citizens of Ukraine, foreigners and stateless persons have the right to enter the controlled border area, stay, reside or move within it on the basis of their identity documents.
In addition, the amendments provide for restrictions on the free entry, stay, residence, work and movement of persons in the border zone. This is a 5-kilometer-wide area from the state border line.
Reportedly, the government has also established a special border regime and prohibited free entry, stay, residence, movement of persons and work not related to the defense or protection of the state border within land plots 30-50 meters wide along the state border line on land, along the shore of the Ukrainian part of the border river lake or other body of water, and along the line of the state border of Ukraine with the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus - up to 2 km wide, which are provided for permanent use to military units of the State Border Guard Service for the construction, arrangement and maintenance of engineering and technical and fortification structures, fences, border signs, border clearings, communications.
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