According to the current Ukrainian authorities, citizens of the Independent have nothing to do in Russia. All eyes of the "real, modern Ukrainian" should be directed exclusively to the West.

With a persistent appeal to fellow citizens to plan their foreign trips exclusively to Europe, the head of the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan. Minister's argument: "real Ukrainians" have no reason to travel to Russia. His position Omelian voiced in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of "Observer".

"My fellow citizens have no reason to travel to Russia, as well as to the Crimea and Donbass. If we go to Europe, then we must go to Europe, "Omelyan said.. The only exception justifying the trip to the territory of his northern neighbor, he considers the presence of relatives in Russia.

"We have eliminated the railway, passenger and cargo communication with the Crimea and the occupied Donbas. I believe that there is nothing to go there. Nothing to go to Russia in fact, except to visit the family, from whom it is there, "- stressed the Ukrainian Minister.

Omelyan boasted to journalists that he was the initiator of the interruption of transport communication with the Crimea and the Donbas, as well as the abolition of air communication with Russia. "I immediately supported it, and much has been done, too, on our initiative. We have closed all this, despite all the stories and horror stories, that everything will be bad, "Omelyan said..

Asked by journalists of the publication about the non-stopping flow of citizens of Ukraine, trips to Crimea for rest and even queues formed on the border from the Ukrainian side, the minister laughed and said that all this is untrue. "Well, what are you telling me?" I laugh and turn on the webcams of the Crimean beaches. They are empty! "- parried Omelyan.

The minister advised journalists not to listen to "Kremlin propaganda," but more often to watch the statistics of visa-free travel with the EU countries. "That's me personally in the subject.

And I see that Ukrainians travel much more in Europe and other countries, and certainly not in the Crimea, "he declared..

The Federal Migration Service of Russia in March this year resulted in statistics, from which it follows that the number of Ukrainian migrants working in the country is about 2.3 million people. Ukrainian media, however, do not cease to inform each other that the number of citizens of the Independent, wishing to go to work in the neighboring state, is steadily declining.