History of Diplomatic Relations
Ukraine recognised the Republic of Estonia on 26 August 1991, and diplomatic relations were established on 4 January 1992. Estonia is represented in Ukraine by Ambassador Gert Antsu.
Good relations exist between Estonia and Ukraine and close co-operation is done in many different areas. Ukraine is and will remain one of Estonia’s foreign policy priorities and Estonia supports Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration. Ukraine is one of Estonia’s development co-operation priority countries. The main objective of humanitarian aid is to help alleviate the effects of the serious conflict, which began in 2014.
Close co-operation takes place in international organisations as well as on the departmental level between Ukraine and Estonia. In 2010 an intergovernmental commission started up, which has the goal of discussing economic, educational, technological and scientific bilateral co-operation in accordance with an agreement that came into force in 2008.
In recent years co-operation between the two parliaments has intensified. There is an Estonian-Ukrainian parliamentary group in the Riigikogu and an analogous friendship group in the Ukrainian parliament.