Biometric passport control for Russians to be introduced earlier than planned, from Dec 27

Adviser to the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior Zoryan Shkiryak has announced that Ukraine is introducing biometric passport control for Russian citizens as of December 27, earlier than originally planned. 

"From December 27, 2017, mobile complexes of biometric control will be put into operation in the places of probable illegal border crossing by trespassers and smugglers," he wrote on Facebook on December 24. He also recalled that from 00:01 on January 1, 2018, every Russian citizen who would like to cross the state border of Ukraine should "leave fingerprints and the entire set of biometric data."