From December 31, citizens of Ukraine can travel to the UAE without visas.
Dubai, UAE. From December 31, 2017, citizens of Ukraine can travel to the United Arab Emirates without visas. "On New Year's Eve, visa-free travel with the United Arab Emirates starts. From December 31, 2017, Ukrainian citizens will be able to travel to the UAE without visas for up to 30 days using biometric passports," wrote Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin on Twitter.
The agreement on visa-free trips of Ukrainians to the UAE was reached during the state visit of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in November 2017. Tours in the UAE are now in great demand among Ukrainians, in popularity they are located approximately in the third or fourth place after Turkey and Egypt. In 2016, the UAE was visited by more than 112 thousand citizens of Ukraine.
Earlier, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported that it was working on the introduction of a visa-free regime with Kuwait and Qatar and on simplifying the visa regime with Saudi Arabia.
