KIEV, April 18 – The United States is to increase the cost of issuing its visas for Ukrainians, and Ukraine is getting ready to respond, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine has said.

"According to the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States, from April 13 this year the U.S. Department of State is planning to increase the cost of processing applications for non-immigrant visas for citizens of the countries, with which the Unites States has a visa regime, including Ukraine," Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov said at a briefing in Kiev on Wednesday.