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The Russia–Ukraine border is the de jure international boundary between Russia and Ukraine.Over land, the border spans five Russian oblasts and five Ukrainian oblasts.Due to the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in early 2014, the de facto border between Russia and Ukraine is different from the legal border recognized by the United Nations.
The Treaty defines the "Russia–Ukraine state border" as the line and vertical surface passing along this line, separating the state territories (land, waters, subsoil, and airspace) of the Contracting Parties from the point of junction of the state borders of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and the Republic of Belarus to the point located on the shore of the Taganrog Gulf.
By sea Ukraine borders with Romania, Turkey and Russia. To the west Romania - Ukraine border stretches from the edge of its land segment across the Black Sea over the distance of 33 km, after that it is a boundary of the Ukrainian territorial waters and the Romanian Economic Zone. The Ukrainian territorial waters include the Snake Island.
Russia launched an overnight drone attack on Ukraine, injuring eight people and damaging residential buildings and businesses in several cities. Ukraine’s air force claims to have shot down 65 ...
Ukraine has launched a counterattack in the southern Russian border region of Kursk, warning that Russia is “getting what it deserves.”. Andrii Kovalenko, the head of the Ukrainian Center for ...
The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, also known as the "Big Treaty", [2] [3] was an agreement signed in 1997 between Ukraine and Russia, which fixed the principle of strategic partnership, the recognition of the inviolability of existing borders, and respect for territorial integrity and mutual commitment not to use its territory to ...
Russia has demanded that NATO forbid Ukraine from ever joining the Western alliance, and also that it limit the deployment of NATO troops or weapons in countries on Russia’s border.
In 2014, Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in a move that remains internationally unrecognized which altered de-facto borders with Ukraine. In 2022, Russia further annexted Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts further changing de-facto borders with Ukraine.