CGTN: Ukraine marks start of visa-free regime with EU. (also means Ukraines Neo-Nazis can travel freely around europe)
Ukraine marks start of visa-free regime with EU
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Ukrainians were on Sunday celebrating the first day of visa-free access to the European Union, with hundreds crossing the border as President Petro Poroshenko proclaimed a dramatic "breakaway" from Moscow.
The move is symbolic for Kiev, where a pro-EU revolt in 2014 toppled the previous Russia-backed government and was followed by the Crimea crisis, sparking a protracted ongoing conflict with pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
A group of young Ukrainian women pose for photographs as they queue to check in for a flight to Amsterdam on the first day of visa-free travel to the EU from Boryspil airport in Kiev on June 11, 2017. /VCG Photo
"The visa-free regime for Ukraine has started! Glory to Europe! Glory to Ukraine!" Poroshenko tweeted early Sunday, after hundreds of Ukrainians crossed the EU border.
Only those with biometric passports – containing a microchip with personal data, including fingerprints – can take advantage of the visa-free travel for the time being.
Ukrainians attend a mass open-air concert dedicated to visa-free regime of Ukraine with the EU countries in Kiev on June 10, 2017. /VCG Photo
Late Saturday, Poroshenko addressed a crowd in Kiev's European Square saying the new travel regime "symbolizes a final breakaway of our state from the Russian empire" and calling the future a "different historical era."
Kiev is also seeking to boost European integration with cheaper rail links and more low-cost air connections with EU cities, he said.
(Source: AFP)
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