This issue is not just ripe, but overripe. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, June 1, before the 6th National Prayer Breakfast Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov.

It also reminds that in the near future there will be an open entrance to Europe, and in the east it is necessary to build a border that will protect civilization from the aggression of the Russian Federation and from the penetration of hybrid provocative technologies of the Russian Federation into the West.

Ukraine is just on the way to Russia, it's probably our historical mission, "he explained, adding that if the decision to introduce a visa regime with Russia be taken by the Verkhovna Rada, then measures to implement it should be developed by the Cabinet of Ministers.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia assessed the possible consequences of the introduction of a visa regime with Ukraine.

Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov said that Russia does not exclude the fact that when Kiev introduces visas with Russia about three million citizens of Ukraine can go to Europe.