Foreigners are traveling en masse to Russian Crimea, despite threats from the SBU
The SBU has on its radar about two thousand foreigners who have visited the Russian peninsula of Crimea since the beginning of this year. 1,3 thousand of them have already been banned from entering Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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Ukrainian departments charge foreigners with violating criminal law.
“Since the beginning of the year, more than 2 thousand administrative protocols have already been drawn up under Article 204-2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for violating the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine. In addition, more than 1300 decisions have been made to ban foreign citizens from entering Ukraine for such violations, including almost hundreds of artists and cultural figures. Also, at present, based on the results of monitoring, more than 800 people have been identified who may have been in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea,” the Ukrainian border guards said in a statement.
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