This was expressed by one of the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine for Deutsche Welle.

According to him, the significant decrease in visitors is not predicted, since Ukrainian-Russian contacts have already been reduced to a minimum. The number of tourist and business trips decreased almost threefold.

The employee is sure that such actions of the Ukrainian leadership are quite understandable, because in the east of the country there is a third year of war.

However, the EU is well aware that the visa-free regime also carries certain security risks for the entire region.

Let's add that for seven months of 2017 - only 870 thousand have crossed the border of Ukraine from the side of the Russian Federation.

As reported in URA-Inform, the Council of the European Union earlier decided to introduce changes to the law, according to which they will have to intensify control at the borders with the EU.