The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine adopted a resolution prohibiting the travel of officials, people’s deputies, judges and law enforcement officers abroad for the duration of the war without good reason. This is stated in the press service of the government.
During martial law, people’s deputies, officials, representatives of local authorities, prosecutors, judges and many other officials, as Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal specified, will be able to cross the state border on the basis of a business trip.
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“It is possible to go abroad for negotiations, for treatment, to care for minor children. Going on vacation is not. Unfortunately, there are those who, even during the war, did not understand these basic things. Therefore, there was a decision of the National Security and Defense Council, there was a corresponding presidential decree Ukraine, and now there is a corresponding resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers,” he said.
On January 23, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree according to which Ukrainian officials will have the opportunity to travel outside Ukraine exclusively on business trips. The decision of the National Security and Defense Council expressly prohibits officials from leaving Ukraine for private purposes. “Officers will no longer be able to travel abroad on vacation or for any other non-state purpose,” Zelensky said.
In January, several scandals broke out in Ukraine related to the trips of officials and people’s deputies abroad during the war. Due to the New Year’s trip to Spain, Deputy Prosecutor General Alexei Simonenko has already resigned. Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the party “Servant of the People” Nikolai Tishchenko was seen in Thailand, where he allegedly held a meeting with the Ukrainian community. He was expelled from the party faction in the Verkhovna Rada and from the party itself.
