The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has initiated electronic registration on its website where citizens can apply for entrance permits to the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone.
Applications are processed online and can verify the application process by themselves. After obtaining a permit, a citizen may cross control checkpoints with just their passport, the SBU anti-terror center reported on Tuesday.
For authorization to travel across the ATO zone citizens must display their login and password while mentioning the name of definite coordination centers. There are five of these centers: the coordination center at the ATO headquarters in Kramatorsk (Donetsk region) and coordination groups at the Interior Ministry’s regional offices in Mariupol, Velyka Novoselivka and Artemivsk (all in Donetsk region) and one in Starobilsk, Luhansk region.
Previously National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Turchynov reported that a new entrance permit system to ATO zone would launch on July 7 and would be designed to cut the length of time needed to register, improve the quality of checkups, as well as to combat corruption and curtail queues at checkpoints.
