The Romania–Ukraine border is the state border between Romania and Ukraine. It consists of both a land and a maritime boundary. The total border length is including by rivers and by the Black Sea. It is part of the external border of the European Union (since Romania's accession to the EU in January 2007).
The maritime delimitation between the two countries, including the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone was adjudicated at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2009.
Location
The land border consists of two parts: the northern part stretches across Carpathian Mountains region roughly west–east from the Hungary-Romania-Ukraine tripoint to the northern Moldova-Romania-Ukraine tripoint. It starts along the Tisza River (through Maramureș) and runs across the historical region of Bukovina in the Eastern Carpathians. The southern part stretches between Budjak and Dobruja regions roughly west–east from the southern Moldova-Romania-Ukraine tripoint to the maritime Romania-Ukraine boundary. It runs along the Danube River, its Chilia branch (most northern branch) of its delta to the Black Sea. Until Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Dniester (Nistru) river used to serve as international border between Ukraine (later the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) and Romania.
History
The border is mostly inherited from the Romania–Soviet Union border, with some border disputes, most notable being the Snake Island issue. On 4 July 2003 the President of Romania Ion Iliescu and the President of Russia Vladimir Putin signed a treaty about friendship and cooperation. Romania promised not to contest territories of Ukraine or Moldova, which it lost to Soviet Union after World War II, but requested that Russia as a successor of the Soviet Union recognized its responsibility in some form for what had happened."Russia and Romania: Compromise on history". BBC Russia. 4 July 2003.
Nonetheless, the very next year in 2004 Romania contested Ukrainian maritime territory around the Snake Island in the ICJ in what became known as the Maritime Delimitation in the Black Sea case. Romania was able to partially win the case.
Border crossings and checkpoints
The following border crossings exist (listed from Northwest to Southeast):
Romanian name County Ukrainian name Oblast Route in Romania Route in Ukraine Status Opening times Halmeu Satu Mare Dyakove Transcarpathia railway railway internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/dyakove-halmeu 24 hours Halmeu Satu Mare DyakoveTranscarpathia internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/dyakove-halmeu 24 hours Câmpulung la Tisa Maramureș Teresva Transcarpathia railway railway internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/teresva-kimpulung-la-tisa 24 hours Sighetu Marmației Maramureș Solotvyno Transcarpathia adjacent to internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/solotvino-sigetu-marmaciyej 24 hours Valea Vișeului Maramureș Dilove Transcarpathia railway railway internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/dilove-valya-visheuluj 24 hours Ulma Suceava Seliatyn Chernivtsi 209G local road local ?? Vicovu de Sus Suceava Krasnoilsk Chernivtsi T-2608 internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/krasnoyilsk-vikovu-de-sus 08:00-20:00 Vicșani Suceava Vadul-Siret Chernivtsi railway railway internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/vadul-siret-vikshani 24 hours Siret Suceava Porubne Chernivtsi internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/porubne-siret 24 hours Racovăț Botoșani Diakivtsi Chernivtsi 291C local road internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/dyakivci-rakovec1 24 hours Isaccea Tulcea Orlivka Odesa ferry ferry internationalhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/orlivka-isakcha 24 hours Plauru Tulcea Izmail Odesa ferry ferry localhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/izmayil-plaur 07-00-20:00 Chilia Veche Tulcea Kiliia Odesa ferry ferry localhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/kiliya-kiliya-veke 07-00-20:00 Periprava Tulcea Vylkove Odesa ferry ferry localhttps://dpsu.gov.ua/en/vylkovo-pereprava 07-00-20:00
Five further crossings are planned at:https://agerpres.ro/2024/12/14/ukraine-plans-to-open-11-crossing-points-at-border-with-romania-to-encourage-exports--1403378
Remeți/Yablunivka Tarna Mare/Khyzha Sighetu Marmației-East/Bila Tserkva Izvoarele Sucevei/Shepit Climăuți/Bila Krynytsya
Local border traffic In 2014, Romania and Ukraine signed a provisional agreement on local border traffic. It applies to the residents within the border area extendable to to accommodate larger administrative units extending beyond the 30 km zone, listed in Annex 1 to the Agreement.
The agreement was subject to the completion of the necessary internal formalities. The Romanian side completed them in March 2014. The Ukrainian side complete its arrangements in May 2015. The agreement covers 662 localities in Ukraine Transcarpathia (Zakarpattia Oblast: Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Chernivtsi). It is applicable to about 2 million Ukrainian and Romanian residents."Local border traffic between Ukraine and Romania to enter into force in mid-May". TELERADIO-MOLDOVA: TRM.
See also State Border of Ukraine :Category:Romania–Ukraine border crossings
References
Further reading
Hungary–Slovakia–Romania–Ukraine ENPI Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007–2013