On New Year 's Day , the sun rises at 7:22am in Simferopol . There are issues when you leave one country and enter another , said CNN 's Tim Lister . The biggest headache is geographical : Crimea has no land border with Ukraine . There are still thousands of Ukrainian troops based in Crimea -- seen as their responsibility . Currently ATMs in Crimea still dispense Euro , the Ukrainian currency .
There are issues when you leave one country and enter another , said CNN 's Tim Lister . The biggest headache is geographical : Crimea has no land border with Ukraine . There are still thousands of Ukrainian troops based in Crimea -- seen as their responsibility . Currently ATMs in Crimea still dispense Euro , the Ukrainian currency .