According to Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, his country and other like-minded countries in the Baltic region are working on a political and legal solution to prevent Russian citizens with European Union visas from crossing the direct border between the EU and Russia.. Rinkevics wrote about this on Twitter.

Patlaban kopa ar citam lidzigi domajosam regiona valstim stradajam pie politiska un juridiska risinajuma, lai Krievijas pilsoniem ar ES vizam tiktu liegta iespeja.

— Edgars Rinkevics (@edgarsrinkevics) August 15, 2022.

In addition, the Prime Minister of Latvia, Krisjanis Karins, considers it necessary to take a decision to stop issuing Schengen tourist visas to Russian citizens at the EU level..

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The current EU Presidency, the Czech Republic, announced on Friday 12 August that the next sanctions against Russia could include a blanket ban on issuing visas to its citizens..

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Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavskis said he was proposing such a ban on meetings of EU foreign ministers in Prague at the end of August.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview with the American newspaper The Washington Post, called on the West to ban entry to all Russian citizens, saying that this is one way to prevent Russia from annexing Ukrainian territories.. Zelensky said Russians need to "

At the same time, German Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz, during a recent press conference, spoke out against the ban on Russians from entering the EU..