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Boryspil (Kyiv) and Lviv international airports have signed agreements on the start of flights to Ukraine with Ireland’s low-cost airline Ryanair.

An Interfax-Ukraine correspondent has reported that Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary signed the agreements with Director General of the Boryspil airport Pavlo Riabikin and Director General of Lviv airport Tetiana Romanovska on March 23 at the Boryspil airport in the presence of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

The airline has started selling tickets for Ukrainian flights in its booking system.

Poroshenko said that Ryanair will start flying in October 2018 and will launch flights to 10 destinations from Kyiv and five from Lviv.

The Ukrainian president said that the arrival of the airline to Ukraine is the seal of quality of investment climate. He said that the tickets for Ukrainians will be cheaper than 40 euro and the airline seeks to carry 1 million Ukrainians in the first year of its operation.