MOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. The Ukrainian cabinet has lifted restrictions on travel abroad for women, Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko announced on her Telegram channel.
"The government cancels restrictions on crossing the border for all women without exception, regardless of their position in government bodies, local governments, state companies, or courts," she wrote, without elaborating.
The Hromadske news website explained that even as the government earlier lifted restrictions on foreign visits for female officials, including female members of local governments and state-owned enterprises, the change in state policy did not apply to officials, including heads of ministries and central bodies of executive government, female employees of Vladimir Zelensky’s office, the Verkhovna Rada apparatus, the National Security and Defense Council, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), and the National Bank. Supreme Rada members, judges of the Supreme Court and the Constitutional Court, prosecutors of the Prosecutor General’s Office as well as heads of public companies, and bodies with national jurisdictions, too, were banned from travelling abroad.