page_title: Russia–Ukraine relations
section_title: Treaties and agreements
hierarchical_section_title: Russia–Ukraine relations / Treaties and agreements
caption_attribution_description: English: “Yeltsin, Kravchuk and Shushkevich”. Russian President Boris Yeltsin (second left), Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk (second right) and Chairman of the Byelorussian Supreme Council Stanislav Shushkevich (right) in Belovezhskaya Pushcha at the signing of the Agreement establishing the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). Русский: «Ельцин, Кравчук и Шушкевич». Президент РФ Борис Ельцин (второй слева), Президент Украины Леонид Кравчук (второй справа) и Председатель Верховного Совета Белоруссии Станислав Шушкевич (справа) во время встречи в Беловежской пуще для подписания Соглашения о создании СНГ. Белоруссия, Минск
context_page_description: Russia–Ukraine relations refers to the relations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Currently, the two countries are engaged in the Russo-Ukrainian War which started in 2014 following Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. The modern bilateral relationship between the Russian Federation and Ukraine formally started during World War I as the former Russian Empire was going through its political reform. In 1920 the bilateral relationship between two countries was changed as Ukraine was conquered by the Russian Red Army. In 1990s immediately upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, of which both Soviet Russia and Soviet Ukraine had been formally founding constituent republics, bilateral relations were revived. Relations between the two countries collapsed since the
  2014 Ukrainian revolution, followed by Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, and over Russia's backing for the separatists fighters of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic in a war that by early 2020 had killed more than 13,000 people and brought Western sanctions on Russia.
context_section_description: 1654 March Articles (2 April 1654) (undermined by the Truce of Vilna, Treaty of Hadiach, Treaty of Andrusovo)
  approved by the Cossack Council (Pereiaslav, 18 January 1654)
  Union Workers'-Peasants' treaty (28 December 1920)
  Union treaty (30 December 1922; 31 January 1924) (surpassed by the Belavezha Accords)
  approved by the 7th All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (10 December 1922)
  ratified by the 9th All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets (May 1924)
  1954 Soviet Decree: Transfer of the Crimean Oblast from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (February 1954)
  decreed by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (19 February 1954)
  announced on front page of Pravda (27 February 1954)
  Treaty between the Russian SFSR and the Ukrainian SSR (Kiev, 19 November 1990) (surpassed by the treaty of 1997)
  ratified by the Supreme Council of the Russian SFSR (23 November 1990)
  ratified by the Supreme Council of Ukraine (1990) "yes": 352, "nay": 0
  Belavezha Accords (8 December 1991)
  Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (5 December 1994)
  Following the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and the subsequent War in Donbas in 2014, Ukraine, the US, Canada, the UK, along with other countries, stated that Russian involvement is a breach of its obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest Memorandum, a Memorandum signed by Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, John Major, and Leonid Kuchma, and in violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
  Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet (Kiev, 28 May 1997)
  ratified by the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2 March 1999)
  the State Duma approved the denunciation of the treaty unanimously by 433 members of parliament on 31 March 2014.
  Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership Between the Russian Federation and Ukraine (Kiev, 31 May 1997)
  Treaty Between the Russian Federation and Ukraine on Cooperation in the Use of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait (2003)
  2010 Kharkiv Pact
  both the Russian and Ukrainian parliaments did ratify the agreement on 27 April 2010
  the State Duma approved the denunciation of the treaty unanimously by 433 members of parliament on 31 March 2014
  Ukraine (has also) terminated several treaties and agreement with Russia since the start of the 2014 Crimea crisis (for example agreements in the military and technical cooperation sphere signed in 1993).
  In December 2019, Ukraine and Russia agreed to implement a complete ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the year-end. The negotiations were brokered by France and Germany, where the countries in conflict committed an extensive prisoner swap along with withdrawal of Ukraine's military from three major regions falling on the front line.
caption: Leaders of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian Soviet republics signed the Belavezha Accords, dissolving the Soviet Union, 8 December 1991
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