Kiev introduces new epidemiological rules of entry
New rules apply at the Ukrainian-Russian border: from 5 August, entry into the territory of Ukraine for anyone staying in Russia for more than 7 days will be much more difficult. Everyone must go into strict two-week isolation. Because neither Russian vaccination certificates nor PCR certificates obtained in Russia are recognized in Nezalezhnaya. The same strict rules apply to the inhabitants of DPR and LPR: I created a non-Ukrainian certificate for insulation.
Photo: State Prison Cordony Service of Ukraine.
Such conclusions can be drawn from the resolution of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers and clarification of the new Chief Hygienist of Ukraine Igor Kuzin. In short, only those who are vaccinated with WHO-listed vaccines approved for emergency use can enter safely. Russian vaccines are not included in this WHO list and are not recognized by Ukraine. And PCR tests won't help either. Ukraine now does not recognize certificates issued in Russia, India and … LDNR.
And here the main border problem is the inhabitants of self-proclaimed republics. In order for pensioners to receive their due payments, thousands travel every day in congested minibuses and buses through Russia to the Goptovka-Nekhotyevce border crossings between Belgorod and Kharkov and Chertkovo-Melov between the Luhansk region of Ukraine and the Bryansk region. They definitely do not spend “more than 7 days” in Russia, they travel on average in the territory of the Russian Federation on average one day, but how will they need to prove it? And won't such “evidence” justify a fine for an administrative violation? As you know, the Verkhovna Rada has not yet abolished fines for “illegal border crossings”.
The MK correspondent called one of the public hotlines in Kiev and asked for advice on his alleged trip from Donetsk to Kiev via Russia to relatives. “No one yet knows what the practice of applying this decree will be,” says the girl Oksana. – And no one understands how thousands of people will suddenly begin to prove their recent illegal crossing of an uncontrolled section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, for example in the same Donetsk region? One thing is clear: Ukrainian border guards will not accept any certificate or other document stamped with a double-headed eagle as evidence! Your relatives are lucky: they are leaving next week – the first fine will appear, the first scandals, the courts and at least something will be clear. “
In DPR and LPR, all seals and all government agencies are strictly marked with a double-headed eagle. Ukraine does not recognize any documents of the self-proclaimed Republics of Donbass, even if they are PCR test or vaccination certificates.
Most likely, it will all depend on the size of the bribe. “Last week, my mother-in-law returned from Ukraine to Donetsk via Russia.” She crossed the border at the customs point Goptovka near Kharkov. So there, they collected 500 hryvnia from everyone who was in the minibus, “so that there would be no problems with the covid,” says partner MK Vladimir.
Russian travelers who crossed the Ukrainian border in July 2021 say that the coronavirus test can be performed at Ukrainian border guards (it costs about 2,000 rubles), but the Russians do not have such a possibility. Until August, Russian border guards asked for a coronavirus test, and their Ukrainian colleagues were interested in last-minute tests. Ukrainians were much more interested in whether the visitor has insurance against covid.
Ukrainians are easily released from Russia to their homeland, but there is a clear list of reasons for the Russians. Among them – a trip to a relative, study and treatment. At the same time, the treatment in the sanatorium will not work: we need a referral to the hospital.
“We came across a Russian border guard who proudly stated that not a single person had passed through Ukraine in a year. And they are all very determined there and do not take any bribes. According to local truckers, they are well paid, so there is no need to risk a few thousand rubles, “said Světlana MK, who went to her relatives on the shores of the Sea of Azov in June.
The situation is completely different. with Ukrainian border guards, the traveler admitted. “As soon as we went to the Ukrainian cordon, we were told:” Oh, you are in a Porsche, you probably have offenses – from you 5 thousand rubles. “We negotiated three thousand, but then his partners had to pay more, and in the end it was 6.5 thousand rubles. In general, no one is afraid of anything, but like the Russian border guards, they motivate their actions with measures to combat coronavirus,” says Svetlana .