Ukraine feels let down by EU with visa deal elusive


  • World
  • Wednesday, 07 Dec 2016

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (L) speaks with former NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, in this September 10, 2015 handout photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service. REUTERS/Mykhailo Markiv/Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine feels let down by the European Union for not keeping to a promise to give its citizens visa-free travel in the bloc, senior Ukrainian officials said.

The comments, made by two senior officials in interviews with Reuters, were unusually outspoken and cut through the public displays of bonhomie shown at a Ukraine-EU summit in Brussels in November.

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