The Ukrainian authorities have blocked lawmakers and officials from travelling abroad after a series of scandals involving MPs’ “business trips” to luxury resorts and plan to revise the legislation covering such trips, writes pravda.com.ua.

“All lawmakers and officials have indeed been banned from leaving Ukraine. People have lost touch with reality. The relevant authorities will now thoroughly check travel documents, invitations, travel arrangements and so on.

So that it doesn’t happen that a business trip was to Vilnius and people come back through Croatia, staying there for another week.

The resolution regulating these business trips and holidays abroad will now be amended, including those for the military.

There is some talk that particularly scandalous people might receive military draft notices and head off to war once they lose their parliamentary mandate”, - says a source of Ukrainska Pravda in the Ukrainian President’s Office.

Earlier, unconfirmed information emerged that “an order was sent to the border posts to ban all officials and lawmakers from travelling abroad”.