Russian-Ukrainian relations
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Russia–Ukraine relations (Ukrainian: Українсько-російські відносини, Russian: Российско-украинские отношения) are Bilateral relations or Foreign relations between the sovereign states of Russia and Ukraine.
Interactions between the two areas developed on a formal basis from the 17th century (note the Treaty of Pereyaslav between Moscow and Bohdan Khmelnytsky's cossacks in 1654), but international-level relations ceased when Catherine the Great liquidated the autonomy of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1764. For a short period of time soon after the Communist October Revolution of 1917 two states interacted again.
In 1920 Soviet Russian forces overran Ukraine and relations between the two states transitioned from international to internal ones within the Soviet Union (founded in 1922).
Relations transitioned into international relations during the 1990s immediately upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, of which both Russian and Ukraine had been founding constituent republics. The complicated intergovernmental relations between the two countries have undergone periods of ties, tensions, and outright hostility since 1991.
On 10 February 2015, in response to Russian military intervention, the parliament of Ukraine registered a draft decree on suspending diplomatic relations with Russian Federation. Although this suspension did not materialize, Ukrainian official Dmytro Kuleba (Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe) acknowledged early April 2016 that diplomatic relations had been reduced "almost to zero". Late 2017 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin stated that "there are no diplomatic relations with Russia in terms of content".
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