Neighboring countries returned to the rule that Ukrainians must have a foreign passport to cross the border.
As the head of the State Border Service explained, if a person crosses the border as a refugee - primarily from war zones - and has objective reasons for not being able to quickly renew or make a foreign passport, "then in exceptional cases, the neighboring party can let Ukrainian citizens pass internal passports".
At the same time, Ukrainian border guards study the circumstances of departure and can contact colleagues from a neighboring country to understand whether they will let a person through under such circumstances with an internal passport.