Ukraine’s border service says that around 100 Russian citizens have been denied entry into the country since an entry ban for adult Russian males was announced Friday.
Border guards’ spokesman Andrei Demchenko has told Ukrainian television Saturday that “the vast majority of (them) couldn’t confirm the purpose of their trip to Ukraine.”
He said that “some of them didn’t have the necessary documents to enter Ukraine and others had exceeded the period of stay in our country.”
President Petro Poroshenko announced Friday that all Russian males aged 16 to 60 would be banned from entering Ukraine during a 30-day period of martial law approved Monday.
Poroshenko said the move was intended to prevent undercover Russian military units from entering the country after Russia seized three Ukrainian naval vessels and their crews last week in the Kerch Strait between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov.
The attack was a significant escalation of tension between the countries, who, in 2014, tussled over unmarked Russian troops that invaded Crimea’s military bases and ships. Russia has also reportedly backed a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine.
On Thursday, President Trump canceled a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin citing the escalating actions that Russia had seemingly taken against Ukraine.
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