Ukraine may introduce biometric visas for citizens of the Russian Federation. Pavlo Klimkin, Foreign Minister of Ukraine said this

on the air of 'UA: Kharkiv'.





According to him, the biometric control system on the border with Russia proved to be effective, since a data bank with biometric information is being created.

This is justified, taking into account the recent case of poisoning of the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal, the minister said.





'We are creating a data bank, we are well aware that there can be manipulations, as you can see. If there is biometric data, we know perfectly well what kind of people are we talking about, and just changing documents

will not help them,' said Klimkin.





At the same time, the minister insists on the need for prior approval of the visits of Russians to Ukraine.

According to him, currently, the authorities provide control of the movement of those citizens of the Russian Federation who appear to be possible suspects.





'But, of course, it’s quite difficult to keep track of everyone. Ordinary visas with Russia will not help us ... if it’s not efficient enough, we will need to think about introducing biometric visas,' he added.





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