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Silver medalist at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Ukrainian wrestler Zhan Belenyuk twice denied a visa to Germany. This athlete described the incident on his Instagram.

“Before the visa-free regime, we are asked to suffer the next “few weeks” (corresponding to a vote in the European Parliament to be held on the second Sunday of October), but getting this visa for Ukrainians increasingly resembles a protracted quest and often with humiliating result,”- he wrote.

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