Many states, international organizations, and civil society actors worldwide had expressed their reactions to the then-escalating crisis between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2021. The cris
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kyiv on 17 January 2022
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov meets with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on 2 December 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video call with U.S. President Joe Biden on 7 December 2021
Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at conference 10 January 2022 regarding a potential Russian invasion
There are currently no diplomatic or bilateral relations between Russia and Ukraine. The two states have been at war since Russia invaded the Crimean peninsula in February 2014, and Russian-controlled
Kyiv functioned as the capital of Kievan Rus', which was ruled by the Varangian Rurikid dynasty which gradually became Slavicized.
The number and share of Ukrainians in the population of the regions of the RSFSR (1926 census).
The Russian Embassy in Kyiv, 2008
The Ukrainian Embassy in Moscow, 2010