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The State Border Guard Service of Ukraine does not provide for special control measures for the residents of the uncontrolled territories of Donetsk and Luhansk region when the visa-free regime with the EU comes into force.

“Measures to strengthen control for certain categories are not foreseen. For us they are citizens of Ukraine. Our checkpoints have been using the Interpol database since 2015, there are certain results, and they are quite significant. There are no other measures to strengthen control,” Mykhailo Hrynevych, the first deputy head of the Kyiv separate checkpoint said at a briefing at Kyiv Zhuliany airport, asked whether the measures of control in relation to persons from the occupied territories of Donbas will be strengthened under the visa-free regime.