The Ukrainian Interior Ministry is making considerations as for possibility of replacing internal passports in Ukraine with identity cards.

Director of the State Department for Citizenship, Immigration and the Registration of Individuals Yevhen Mamonov said at a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday that such cards could replace the current Ukrainian internal passports.

"The internal passport is obsolete. There is an instruction by the country's leadership to conduct this work [on the possible replacement of documents]," he noted.

"We are taking efforts to introduce identity cards," Mamonov mentioned.

He also noted that it was currently unknown whether these documents would contain chips with biometric data.