Ukraine should anticipate and analyze possible risks that may arise if it introduces visas with the Russian Federation, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said.

"Russia will try to complicate the visa reception procedures as much as possible, perhaps offering some forms of citizenship instead of this. Therefore, we should thoroughly analyze all these risks, and, based on this, we will make a decision. This is precisely what we see as the key element in our position," Klimkin told journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday.

Ukraine is ready for introducing visa issuance procedures, Klimkin said. "We have assessed the Foreign Ministry's needs to start issuing visas, which includes additional consular jobs and additional equipment. We should do all this, and we are ready in principle, and we know what we should do, but I certainly must say clearly that this is not a matter of weeks, this issue requires serious political consideration and logistics," he said.

The need to improve security on the border between Ukraine and Russia is unconditional and undisputed, and this requires support for Ukrainian special services' work, Klimkin said.

"We should understand that, unfortunately, the Russian special services will get adapted to visa-free travel very quickly," Klimkin said.

After Ukrainian citizen Roman Suschenko was detained and arrested in Russia, Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy said he did not rule out that Ukraine might consider the introduction of visas with Russia and the expansion of sanctions against it.