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Initiative to stop issuing EU visas to Russian citizens finds support – Kuleba
KYIV. Aug 11 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The initiative of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky to stop issuing visas to Russian citizens to the European Union states is supported, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.
"Latvia has already stopped issuing visas. Finland and Estonia supported such plans. Soon the topic will be discussed at the EU level," Kuleba said at an online briefing on Thursday.
According to Kuleba, Ukrainian diplomacy is actively working to implement this initiative.
He also said that on Wednesday he officially called on all countries of the European Union and the G7 (this is additionally Great Britain, Canada, the United States and Japan) to stop issuing visas to Russians. Kuleba stressed that Zelensky’s position on this issue is very clear – Ukraine does not accept the argument that supposedly such a step will limit the ability of Russians who do not support the Putin regime to travel abroad.
"For persecuted people, there will always be the possibility of political asylum. But Russian tourists in USSR T-shirts with the letters ‘Z’ and so on should not wander around foreign beaches, sights, shops, restaurants, while their country is waging a bloody war of conquest in Europe," the Foreign Minister said.
Kuleba stressed that "the vast majority of Russians support aggression against Ukraine, war crimes and murders, the seizure of foreign land, therefore it is quite logical to deprive them of the right to cross international borders until they learn to respect them."
