With the strict COVID-19 travel restrictions still in place across Europe, one of the leading markets of the Ukrainian tourism market, travelers from the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, now rank among the top visitors to the ex-Soviet state.
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Middle Eastern tourists play with soap bubbles in Lviv, some 540 km west of Kyiv on August 13, 2021. - Saudi tourists in traditional dress ride medieval carriages, pose for portraits by street artists and play chess on benches with locals in Lviv, a city in Ukraine more accustomed to European visitors. But with strict travel restrictions still in place across Europe, travellers from the Middle East -- especially Saudi Arabia -- now rank among the top visitors to the ex-Soviet.
