The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Russian Federation () was the ambassador of Ukraine to Russia. In March 2014 Ukraine recalled its ambassador and was represented by its temporary chargé d'affaires.Ukraine's diplomat: Non-approval of Russia's ambassador doesn't mean full diplomatic break, UNIAN (6 August 2016) In June 2014 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stated that bilateral relations with Russia cannot be normalized unless Russia undoes its unilateral annexation of Crimea and returns its control of Crimea to Ukraine.Ukraine cannot normalize relations with Russia without return of Crimea, says Poroshenko , Interfax-Ukraine (26 June 2014) Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Russia and evacuated its entire embassy personnel from Moscow on 24 February 2022, when Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine.
The first Ukrainian ambassador to Russia assumed his post in 1992, the same year a Ukrainian embassy opened in Moscow. During the Soviet times, the embassy of Ukraine to Russia was called the Permanent Delegation of Government of Ukraine to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
List of representatives
Cossack Hetmanate 1649–1649 Syluyan Muzhylovsky 1653–1653 Syluyan Muzhylovsky and K. Burlyai
Ukrainian People's Republic 1917–1917 Petro Stebnytsky (as Commissar in Affairs with Ukraine) 1918–1918 Serhiy Shelukhin 1919–1919 Semen Mazurenko
Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR 1921–1923 Mykhailo Poloz 1923–1924 Anton Prykhodko 1924–1929 Danylo Petrovsky 1932–1932 Kyrylo Suhomlin 1932–1935 Vasyl Poraiko 1935–1937 Vasyl Polyakov 1942–1944 Pavlo Rosgansky 1944–1946 Petro Rudnycsky 1946–1950 Nikolai Podgorny 1950–1953 Grygoriy Onishenko 1953–1976 Yuriy Dudin 1976–1991 Mykhailo Pichuzhkin 1991–1991 Volodymyr Fedorov
Ukraine 1992–1994Volodymyr Kryzhanivsky 1995–1999Volodymyr Fedorov 1999–2005 Mykola Biloblotsky 2005–2006 Leonid Osavolyuk (provisional) 2006–2008 Oleh Dyomin 2008–2010 Kostyantyn Gryshchenko 2010–2010 Yevhen Herasymov (provisional) 2010–2014 Volodymyr YelchenkoPresident meets new Ambassador of Ukraine to Russia, Official website of the President of Ukraine (July 2, 2010)Ex-envoy to UN Sergeyev quits the foreign service, becomes retiree, UNIAN (9 February 2016) 2015–2019 Ruslan Nimchynskyy, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim 2019–2022 Vasyl Pokotylo, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim
See also Ukrainian Embassy, Moscow Постійне представництво Ради Міністрів УРСР при Раді Міністрів СРСР
References
External links Embassy of Ukraine to the Russian Federation: Previous Ambassadors