A retiree from Poroshenko’s team: visa-free travel would help Ukraine defend Crimea
If Ukraine had received a simplified procedure for traveling to Europe earlier, it would not have lost Crimea.
This was stated by former deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine (2015-2019) Konstantin Eliseev on the talk show "Echo of Ukraine" on the Pryamoy TV channel, affiliated with former President Petro Poroshenko, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Unfortunately, we have temporarily lost Crimea. Who knows - if visa-free travel had been introduced earlier, if earlier people had begun to feel what Europe is, what values are, perhaps this “Russian world” would not have filled the brains of the residents of Crimea. Unfortunately, it's lost.
Now in Donbass even Russians are trying to get a Ukrainian passport. We now occupy 26th place in the world, we are ahead of all the countries of the post-Soviet space, we have emerged from this scoop, we can now freely travel to the countries of the so-called. “white Schengen” – Latin America, Asia. We can travel without visas to 90 countries,” he said.
A retired member of Poroshenko's team: a visa-free regime would help Ukraine defend Crimea.