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State border service: Only Ukrainian citizens can cross administrative border to Crimea

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published Nov. 29, 2018 at 4:21 pm

A member of the Ukrainian coast guard watches the Azov Sea as he stands on board of Lyubomyr Ukrainian fast patrol boat on July 25, 2018.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Only citizens of Ukraine will be able to cross the administrative border in the occupied Crimea, the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine has reported.

“As for the administrative border, it can only be crossed with Ukrainian documents. This is in the direction of Crimea,” head of the press service of the State Border Service Andriy Demchenko said in an interview with the Kyiv-based Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Thursday.