Overview
- Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service says the amended border rules are now in force and officers are applying them at checkpoints.
- The Cabinet’s Resolution No. 623 updates the Rules of Crossing the Border to remove gender-based limits for women, including female civil servants and officials.
- Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko said the decision covers all women regardless of their job or rank in state bodies.
- The update keeps in place wartime exit restrictions for most male citizens ages 18 to 60 who are subject to mobilization.
- The reform builds on earlier narrow easings for some women and replaces a patchwork that let only top officials travel on approved work trips.