Over the past year, Ukraine was visited by 14.3 million foreign citizens, 4 million of them came to permanent residence. As informs the Main thing, such data was promulgated by the State service of statistics.

According to the report, the exact number of citizens who visited our country last year - 14,229,642 people. For business purposes, 88.

9 thousand foreigners entered Ukraine, as tourists - 38.6 thousand people.

Private trips to Ukraine during the past year were carried out by 13.7 million citizens from different countries, 4,5 thousand people came to study, and for the purpose of employment - 2,6 thousand people.

Earlier, the State Border Service unveiled a list of 10 states whose citizens most crossed the border to enter Ukraine in 2017. Most often entered the Ukraine citizens of Moldova, Belarus and Russia.