Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, People's Deputy of Ukraine, Secretary of the Committee on Ukraine's Integration with the EU

How to stop this disgrace, when Russian officials, judges, and civil servants are vacationing now in the European Union member states? In the countries that they themselves and their Russian government call UNFRIENDLY! In European resorts and cities, the destruction of which with nuclear missiles their Russian deputies of the State Duma and propagandists are calling for!

First: the response of the entire civilized world, the EU, UK, and the United States should be clear - NOT to allow such and those citizens of the Russian Federation into their countries.

TO NOT issue them visas. The Schengen visas that were issued before the aggression should be canceled.

Currently everything looks like the citizens of the aggressor country are traveling as tourists to the countries that are being threatened, and this is precisely at the time when Russian troops and mercenaries are killing people in Ukraine. What kind of tourism is this? What kind of tourists are those Russian citizens?

Second: to issue Schengen visas to the aggressor now, while citizens of European countries allocate from their budgets humanitarian aid and governments allocate military aid to stop the aggressor - nonsense!

Nonsense also because no EU country has access to database and biometrics of Russian citizens. This means that the Russian Federation can issue its foreign passports en masse and unchecked to special service employees, agents, potential saboteurs, etc. Passports with fictitious surnames and data that cannot be identified and monitored.

Both the first and the second must be demonstrated to our partners in order to make decisions here and now!