Ukraine has issued a note of protest in light of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Crimea and Sevastopol and sent it to the Russian foreign ministry, the Ukrainian diplomatic agency said.

“Ukraine has issued a resolute protest in light of Russian President Putin’s another visit to Crimea and the city of Sevastopol that began on August 2 and was not agreed with Ukraine”, - the ministry noted.

The agency views this visit similarly to all previous trips of Russian officials to Crimea and Sevastopol “as brazen violation of Ukraine’s state sovereignty and territorial integrity”, the statement underlined.

Putin traveled to Crimea on August 27 to give permission to open vehicle traffic along the finished sections of the Tavrida Highway and drove on one of them.