KYIV, Sept 28 - The number of Ukrainians who consider the introduction of the visa-free regime with the European Union to be important to them has been growing this year and reached nearly 50% in August, according to a poll conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.

According to the poll results released in Kyiv on Friday, 39% of respondents stressed the importance of the visa-free regime with the EU in June 2017, 42% in October, 46% in December, and 48% of respondents in August 2018.