Ukrainian passport is one of the thirty strongest passports in the world. This was announced by President Petro Poroshenko during a meeting with the Ukrainian community of Spain, - presidential press service reports.
Poroshenko recalled that Ukrainians can travel freely throughout Europe with a biometric passport. "And now around the world as well, because already 117 countries are happy to welcome Ukraine and open the doors", - he stated, stressing that the Ukrainian passport is included in the world's 30 strongest passports.
The head of state also stressed that the visa-free travel for the Ukrainian people is not only a right to travel freely. "This is the final "farewell" to the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. The whole world should know and see how fantastic and great Ukraine is. Every day, we create additional reasons for it. As it happened on May 26 during the final matches of the Champions League in Kyiv. Kyiv was recognized as the most hospitable and safe city in the history of such events", - Poroshenko said.
Visa-free regime with the European Union for Ukrainians began to operate from June 11, 2017.