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BBC: Ukraine citizens to get visa-free travel to EU

By BBC.

Published Nov. 24, 2016 at 7:57 pm

Young Ukrainians with their faces painted with the European Union and Ukrainian flags march from Taras Shevchenko Park to European Square in Kyiv on Nov. 24, 2013. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians turned out for the rally on the square to urge the then-President Viktor Yanukovych to reverse his government’s decision to suspend work on signing Ukraine’s political and economic Association Agreement with the European Union.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

Ukrainian citizens will be able to travel to most EU countries without a visa, European Council President Donald Tusk has announced.

He said the country had met relevant standards “perfectly” and in the coming weeks EU officials would work out how the scheme will be implemented.