The EU provisionally agreed on the non-acceptance of Russian travel documents issued in Ukraine and Georgia

The EU provisionally agreed on the non-acceptance of Russian travel documents issued in Ukraine and Georgia.

European Council reported this on its website.

This decision is a response to "Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified military aggression against Ukraine and Russia’s practice of issuing Russian international passports to residents of the occupied regions." This also follows the unilateral decision of the Russian Federation to recognize the independence of the Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in 2008.

The agreed text is subject to approval by the Council and the European Parliament before the official adoption procedure.

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