The European Commission announced on Thursday 3 October that, in conjunction with the European External Action Service, it has sent guidance to Member States and non-EU Schengen countries on how to process visa applications from residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, which are not under government control.
On 24 April, a Russian presidential decree made the process of issuing Russian passports to residents of areas in these two regions not controlled by the Ukrainian...