Ukraine’s restrictions on Russians entering the country are a direct response to Russia’s actions in the region. (Reuters pic)
KIEV: Kiev will tighten control over travel by Russian citizens to Ukraine, according to a decree signed by President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday, a further move by the authorities to distance Ukraine from its neighbour and one-time ally.
Russians and Ukrainians have travelled freely between each other’s countries since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but Kiev has sought to implement a stricter regime in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and role in the separatist conflict in …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
